Mexico to Trump: Nothing by Force; Everything by Reason & Right
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Mexico Prez Tells Trump to Fight Drugs on US Streets
Statement of Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum to US imposing 25 per cent tariff
We categorically reject the White House’s slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention in our territory.
If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the United States arms manufacturers that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups, as demonstrated by the United States Department of Justice itself in January of this year.
In four months, our government has seized more than 40 tons of drugs, including 20 million doses of fentanyl. It has also arrested more than ten thousand people linked to these groups.
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If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population.
They could also start a massive campaign to prevent the consumption of these drugs and take care of their young people, as we have done in Mexico. Drug consumption and distribution is in their country and that is a public health problem that they have not addressed.
In addition, the synthetic opioid epidemic in the United States has its origin in the indiscriminate prescription of drugs of this type, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as demonstrated by the lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company.
Mexico does not want confrontation. We start from collaboration between neighbouring countries.
Mexico not only does not want fentanyl to reach the United States, but anywhere. Therefore, if the United States wants to combat criminal groups that traffic drugs and generate violence, we must work together in an integrated manner, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, collaboration and, above all, respect for sovereignty, which is not negotiable.
Coordination, yes; subordination, no. To this end, I propose to President Trump that we establish a working group with our best public health and security teams.
Problems are not resolved by imposing tariffs, but by talking and dialoguing, as we did in recent weeks with your State Department to address the phenomenon of migration; in our case, with respect for human rights.
The graph that President Trump has been posting on social media about the decline in migration was created by my team, which has been in constant communication with his.
I instruct the Secretary of Economy to implement Plan B that we have been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defence of Mexico’s interests. Nothing by force; everything by reason and right.
(Translated by David Adler on X)
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