Mexico President Claudia Shinbum said that Mexico will not tolerate a “invasion” of its national sovereignty after the Trump administration moved to the appointment of eight crime organizations in Latin America as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
“This cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” Shinbom said at a daily press conference on Thursday. “With Mexico, it is cooperation and coordination, and it is never subordinate or interference, and even a lower invasion.”
“We want to be clear given this classification that we are not negotiating our sovereignty,” Shinbom added. “There can be no interference or dependency.
“The two countries want to reduce drug consumption and illegal drug trafficking.”
Shenbum said that her government was not consulted by the United States in its decision to include the Mexican Cartitals on the list of global terrorist organizations, including Sendo Cartel, United Cartel, the Mishwakana family and the new Galisco generation. On Thursday, the Minister of Safety announced on Thursday that Canada also graduated seven national criminal organizations – including multiple drug gangs – as terrorist entities under criminal law.
“The Mexican people will not accept under any circumstances of interventions, interventions, or any other procedure from the outside that harms the integrity or independence of the nation or the sovereignty of the nation … (including) violations of Mexican lands, whether by land, sea or air, Shinbom said .
Shinbum said on Thursday that she will also propose a second constitutional reform that would affect the sanctions against Mexicans and foreigners who participate in arms smuggling, a higher diplomatic issue for Mexico, where most of the weapons used in crimes in the country are smuggled from the United States.
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Last week, we threatened the arms makers to take legal action if the Trump administration passed its intentions to announce the Mexican drug gangs as terrorist organizations.
“If they declare that these organized crime groups as terrorists, we will not have a choice to extend our lawsuits against the United States, because as the Ministry of Justice has already recognized, 74 percent of all firearms in the possession of drug gangs come from the United States, Shinbom said.
“So, where do weapons stand after appointment?” She added.
During her press conference on February 14, she said that a new charge could include the alleged “complicity” of arms makers with terrorist groups.
On February 13, New York Times I mentioned that the US State Department is planning Classification of criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela as “terrorist organizations”.
“The executive order has called for appointments, saying that the carters pose a threat to national security to the further that the traditional organized crime poses” and that the United States will ensure “complete disposal” of groups. “
The report added that criminal groups and their members “can be classified on foreign terrorist organizations or specially dedicated global terrorists” and “appointments mean that the US government can impose extensive economic sanctions on groups, individuals or entities associated with them.”
Last August, an American judge rejected a $ 10 billion lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against six American weapons manufacturing companies. Mexico argued that companies know that weapons are sold to trapper who smuggled them to Mexico and decided to exchange in this market.
However, the judge had eliminated that Mexico did not provide concrete evidence that any of the activities of the six companies in Massachusetts were linked to any suffering caused in Mexico to rifles.
Earlier this month, Shinboma accused the United States of harboring drug gangs, and claimed that American citizens were working with organized crime groups in Mexico after Trump’s “virtual” allegations that Mexico had joined drug migrants.
“There is also an organized crime in the United States and there are an American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” said Shinbom. During a press conference On February 13. “Otherwise, who will distribute fentanel in the cities of the United States?”
Shinbom was responding to a reporter from the Políico Animal News outlet, which was mentioned The investigation they published This week, which was found that more than 2,600 American citizens had been arrested in Mexico due to crimes related to organized crime, including drug and firearms smuggling, since Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December 2018.
“The case is not only that drugs are transmitted from Mexico to the United States,” she added.
–With files from Reuters
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