With DEA agents jailed and fentanyl down 70%, she said the US must fix its own house: consumption, distribution, money laundering.
“They run into a wall, because Mexico’s security Cabinet has enormous coordination and unity,” Sheinbaum said, dismissing US attempts to divide her government.
“Washington isn’t interested in fighting organized crime within its borders… but in using drug trafficking as a pretext to interfere in other countries,” La Jornada argues.
At the Fentanyl Free America summit, DEA chief Terry Cole called Mexico’s cartels and government “one and the same”; Sheinbaum said the claim has no basis.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on femicide, housing, well-being, the World Cup, sovereignty, international cooperation, and the Lie Detector.
DEA chief Terry Cole made the claim without evidence at the first Fentanyl-Free U.S. Summit, vowing to make the cartels the agency’s “number one priority.”
Unpacking Claudia Sheinbaum’s decision to call Israel’s assault on Gaza a genocide for the first time, the DEA pushing to bomb Mexico, Canadian PM Mark Carney’s visit and Border Czar Tom Homan’s allegedly receiving bribes.
Ultra-right wing (& unelected) Senator Lilly Téllez calls for U.S. intervention in Mexico during a Fox News appearance, false claims from the DEA, Ken Klippenstein’s reporting on US invasion plans, & the Baker Institute’s flawed report.
The DEA and other Washington agencies fail to understand Mexico has changed and they will no longer find the obsequious silence that once allowed them to do and say as they please.
What are the implications for Mexico of hardliner Terry Cole being nominated to lead the scandal-racked DEA, and analyzing the USAID’s historic role as a soft-power arm of empire.