Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, January 25, 2025, p. 3
Cataloging criminal groups as terrorists doesn’t help
and neither unilateral decisions
but rather collaboration and joint coordination, said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who reported that a group of lawyers is analyzing the implications of Donald Trump’s decree on the issue.
He said that the review being carried out in Mexico is to determine if that classification helps prevent fentanyl from reaching any young person or anywhere in the world and combat these (criminal) groups or not
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We have “a team of lawyers that is doing the analysis, because of the implications there may be. What are we doing to combat these criminal organizations? Does the definition of terrorist organizations – beyond its meaning – help combat them?
He stated that they also study the consequences that would have for various organizations that are not linked and that with this decision could generate an economic problem, let’s say
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In any case, I continue, to make an approach to the United States, what we are working on, how to collaborate together, how to coordinate to reduce violence in the country, prevent arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico
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At the same time, he continued, avoid
that this drug reaches that nation, as President Trump has publicly declared, although we we want it to go nowhere
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He indicated that Classifying a criminal group as terrorist does not help, but collaboration and joint coordination does. We have a comprehensive strategy, and in it there can be collaboration and coordination
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The president confirmed that Unilateral decisions do not help either, but collaboration
. So, The approach is coordination, collaboration in the field of mutual respect and our sovereignties.
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In his usual press conference at the National Palace, he stated that it is important to consider that The consumption of fentanyl is not only a matter of criminal groups, but also of public health and attention to the cause
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He highlighted his government’s campaign against that drug, as well as the work of the security cabinet; is very important, and the historical seizure that has been made of this and other drugs, such as methamphetamines
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He considered that the communication with the Trump administration It will be strengthened once the United States government is established, and there will already be joint high-level working groups that will allow us to collaborate and coordinate to build peace in the country.
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Likewise, prevent the arrival of fentanyl to any place and person, as well as prevent the trafficking of weapons from the United States to Mexico, which, he said, is a relevant issue in the bilateral relationship and in “the joint work that must be done for the construction of peace.
They have to do a lot to prevent these weapons from entering Mexico. Collaboration has to do with secure borders, attention to the causes, information, intelligence, research within the framework of international respect and our sovereignties.
