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The governments of Mexico Y United States agreed a programto binational for reduce the arms trafficking, drugs Y financial resourcess of the networks of the organized crime transnational on land, sea, ports and airports, as well as treat fentanyl as a common problem, during the meeting it was monitored that the US prosecutor William Barr He had with Mexican authorities.
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In a joint statement, the secretariats of External relationships and of Security reported that, in the meeting that lasted more than three hours, were addressed different advances in matters of gun traffics, in order to analyze the implementation of operational using means non-intrusive technology at key points of the border to stop the trasiegor of ammunition Y armament To our country.
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“Similarly, the binational cooperation in matters of reduction of the consumption of drugs and fight at addictions”, They said.
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They pointed out that the government of Mexico reaffirms its commitment to dialogue and cooperation to face together complex problems which, due to their transnational character, can only be successfully resolved together.
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The agencies detailed that the meeting involved the Secretaries of Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo, Of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrardof the Interior Olga Sánchez Cordero; National Defense General Luis Crescencio Sandoval; Marina Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán; the legal advisor of the Federal Executive, Julio Scherer Ibarra; and the Undersecretary of Public Security, Ricardo Mejía Berdeja.
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They were also the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Santiago Nieto Castillo; the chief of the National Defense General Staff, general Homer Mendoza Ruiz; the chief of the General Staff of the Navy, admiral Rosendo Escalante Ilizaliturri; the prosecutor of the federation, Carlos Romero Aranda and the secretary general of the National Intelligence Center, Francisco Acuña Méndez.
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For its part, the United States delegation was headed by the attorney general, William Barr; The Embassador, Christopher Landau; the assistant general deputy attorney general, Bruce Swartz; the minister adviser to the embassy, John creamer; the adviser coordinator of the attorney general, Brian Rabbitt and the legal aggregate of the embassy, John Capinen.
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Earlier, William Barr met with his Mexican counterpart Alejandro Gertz Manero, with whom he addressed the issues of arms trafficking and of fentanylas well as the detention of the former Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna.
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Both prosecutors They held a closed-door meeting that lasted about an hour at the premises of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and pledged to strengthen cooperation for brake the arms trafficking to Mexico and fight the fentanyl transfer toward U.S, which has become an epidemic and public health problem due to the thousands of deaths it has caused the voracious consumption of this synthetic drug in the northern neighbor country.
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During your visit from the past December 5thWilliam Barr pressed to the government of presidentand Andrés Manuel López Obrador so that make greater efforts to confront the drug cartels Y extradite suspects to face charges in the United States.
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After that visit from Barr, the president Donald Trump marched backs and said he was postponing “Temporarily” a proposal for qualify to the mexican cartels how terrorist organizations at the request of his Mexican counterpart López Obrador.
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Trump also said at the time that the two countries were intensifying their cooperation. Two weeks later, Mexico extradited Ismael Zambada Imperial, “The Fat Mayito”, 35 years old and son of the founder of the Sinaloa cartel Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García to the United States to face drug charges before a court in San Diego, California that claims it.
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