Sheinbaum: Armerías would be accomplices if cartels are designated terrorists

This Friday, February 14, the president of Mexico, Claudia SheinbaumHe said that American arms manufacturers and merchants would be “accomplices” of terrorism to the possible designation of five drug trafficking cartels as terrorist groups.

“74 % of the weapons of criminal groups come from the United States. So how are the shipowners and distributors in front of the decree? Maybe, I don’t know, lawyers are seeing it, but they can be accomplices, that is one of the issues that we are reviewing “, The federal president in “La Mañanera del Pueblo” pointed out.

Claudia Sheinbaum explained that Mexico would expand the lawsuit filed against the US arms industry if the designation is specified as terrorist that reported The New York Times Of five Mexican cartels: the Sinaloa cartel, the New Generation Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, the Michoacan family, and United Cartels.

“Mexico has an international demand against weapons and distributors manufacturers of arms in the United States, if they came to decree groups of the organized crime As terrorists, we would have to expand demand in the United States, “he warned.

The president of the US, Donald Trump has denounced that Mexico “is governed by cartels”, which he accuses of provoking the death of between 250 thousand and 300 thousand Americans per year, while his National Security Minister Michael Waltz, holds that these criminal groups control 30% of the Mexican territory.

But Sheinbaum has indicated that this declaration “It does not help” the combat of organized crime in Mexico, where three quarters of the weapons come from the United States, according to an official report from the US Department of Justice published in January.

“What we do We will never accept is interference, interference, and we will always defend our sovereignty. So in that framework we are working, “he said now.

The president will also seek “the strengthening” of the norms in Mexico “against any interference or any sale of weapons from a foreigner.”

According to The New York Timesthe State Department list will also consider other Latin American criminal groups such as the Transnational Crime Band of Aragua, the Gulf of Colombia and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).

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