President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to Donald Trump’s warning about declaring cartels as terrorist organizations from the start of his term in the United States.
During an event in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, this Sunday, September 22, Sheinbaum assured that Mexico collaborates, coordinates and works together as part of the security strategy.
“We will never subordinate ourselves. Mexico is a free, sovereign and independent country and we do not accept interference,” said the president.
Sheinbaum assured that the causes will continue to be addressed so that young people do not get close to violence.
“Let them know that this is not a perspective of life. It will always be a perspective of death and abandonment because violence never leads anywhere,” added the president.
What did Donald Trump say about drug cartels?
US President-elect Donald Trump has once again lashed out at countries that he says send their drug traffickers to the United States, saying that the entire network will be “dismantled, deported and destroyed.”
“All members of foreign gangs will be expelled and I will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. I will do so immediately,” he said during a forum of the ultra-conservative organization Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona.
Trump’s statements came after commenting on the case of a city in Colorado where the presence of members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has been reported.
The Republican party has long proposed that drug traffickers be considered terrorist groups in order to intervene in Mexican territory and combat them.
Trump even mentioned President Sheinbaum in his speech, whom he defined as “a lovely woman,” but who needs to stop drug trafficking at the border.
“I was very tough on Mexico. “I spoke to the new president, a woman who was lovely and wonderful, President Sheinbaum, a wonderful woman, but I told her: ‘You cannot do this to our country,’” he said.
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