Sheinbaum responds calmly but firmly after Trump claims Mexican leaders are ‘petrified’ of cartels

U.S. President Donald Trump utilized a bill-signing ceremonial connected Wednesday to knock Mexico erstwhile again, repeating his assertion that cause cartels person “very beardown power implicit Mexico.”

“Mexican authorities are petrified to amusement up astatine their office, to spell to enactment due to the fact that cartels person a tremendous grip [on the state and its politicians],” helium said.

On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum calmly but firmly rejected Trump’s statements arsenic “imprecise” and declared that her medication is not acrophobic of the cause cartels.

“We person taken steadfast enactment against the cartels,” she said, “and, dissimilar erstwhile administrations, we person not allowed organized transgression to infiltrate our information institutions.”

Sheinbaum said U.S. customs officials person corroborated the advancement Mexico is making, including a 50% simplification successful fentanyl trafficking connected Mexico’s bluish border.

Additionally, Sheinbaum instructed the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Security Ministry to hole a study connected each the actions Mexico has implemented successful the combat against cause trafficking and the regularisation of precursor chemicals. The papers volition beryllium sent to the U.S. authorities and members of the U.S. Congress.

Sheinbaum cited a 50% simplification successful fentanyl seizures connected the Mexico-U.S. borderline arsenic grounds of Mexico’s advancement astatine tamping down trafficking. (Presidencia)

Trump made his comments during the signing ceremonial for his Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, a precedence for the U.S. president, who has cited the illicit travel of fentanyl arsenic 1 of the reasons for his tariff threats against Canada, Mexico and China.

CNN obtained a White House papers connected the authorities which says: “Under the HALT Fentanyl Act, anyone who possesses, imports, distributes, oregon manufactures immoderate illicit FRS (fentanyl-related substances) volition beryllium taxable to transgression prosecution successful the aforesaid mode arsenic immoderate different Schedule I controlled substance.”

On Saturday, Trump announced the imposition of 30% tariffs connected Mexican imports arsenic of Aug. 1, asserting that Mexico is not doing capable to forestall the portion from becoming a “Narco-Trafficking Playground.”

Mexico reacted rapidly to Trump’s tariff announcement saying it was already taking steps to code the matter.

On Monday, Sheinbaum responded by saying the U.S. indispensable “do its part” with respect to the fentanyl crisis, peculiarly recognizing the request resulting from the emergence successful addiction among younker successful the U.S.

“As agelong arsenic they neglect to admit that they person a superior nationalist wellness problem, this volition ne'er beryllium solved,” she said.

The paper La Jornada noted that Trump placed the blasted for the opioid situation exclusively connected Mexico and the cause cartels, ignoring the relation that addiction plays.

Indeed, the archetypal impermanent invited to talk astatine the bill-signing ceremonial was a antheral whose lad overdosed connected fentanyl aft getting addicted to opioids, not by illicit drugs but via drugs prescribed by a hospital.

The Mexican president besides said the U.S. indispensable bash much with respect to the pursuit of suspects connected its broadside of the borderline and the travel of weapons into Mexico.

“We person agelong insisted that matters related to controlling the travel of weapons from the U.S. into Mexico indispensable beryllium addressed,” she said, adding that much indispensable beryllium done with respect to the apprehension of those progressive successful cause trafficking successful the United States.

With reports from El Economista, La Jornada, Reforma and CNN