Photo: Twitter Marcelo Ebrard C.
The chancellor of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, instructed the Mexican ambassador and consuls in the United States this Monday afternoon to undertake a broad information campaign and in defense of Mexico in the face of the unacceptable attacks by legislators and former officials of the Republican Party.
"We are not going to allow Mexico to be run over," Foreign Minister Ebrard told the 52 consuls gathered at the Mexican Cultural Institute.
During the meeting, Secretary Ebrard and the consuls reviewed the recent attacks by some legislators and former Republican Party officials, who have sought to blame Mexico for the crisis in the use of fentanyl in the United States, and which in some cases have reached to the extreme of proposing an intervention in our country.
In a meeting held yesterday afternoon in Washington DC with the ambassador Esteban Moctezuma and the 52 Mexican consuls in the American Union, the Mexican foreign minister specified that in the fight against fentanyl, Mexico has been the main ally of the United States.
Proof of this, he pointed out, is that, so far this six-year term, Mexico has seized a record number of more than six tons of fentanyl, which has prevented billions of fatal doses.
The fight against fentanyl trafficking, he added, has cost hundreds of casualties for Mexican federal forces.
"With this cost of human lives, how is it that these gentlemen dare to question our commitment or, even worse, to ask for an intervention in our country?", he objected.
Thus, Ebrard asked the ambassador and the consuls to hold informative meetings with the Mexican community and political actors, and render a weekly report on them.
Finally, at the proposal of the consuls themselves, informative materials will be disseminated at the consulate headquarters and in local media.
Ebrard emphasized that, beyond extreme positions, the governments of Mexico and the United States are working within the framework of the Bicentennial Agreement both to prevent deaths from the use of fentanyl and to prevent criminal groups from accessing high-powered weapons.
He added that in April there will be a meeting in Washington between the security cabinets of both countries to identify additional cooperation steps to combat fentanyl and arms trafficking.
He also assured that the Mexican security authorities do not have a record of fentanyl production in Mexico, but rather they locate the country as a trafficking area for that opioid and its precursors, which come mainly from Asia.
In this sense, Ebrard explained that in the current Mexican Administration, a strategy has been followed based on the hardening of the legal and regulatory framework, the expansion of the supervision and surveillance mechanisms of controlled substances or dual use, the strengthening of the deployment and surveillance in land and sea ports and customs and in the national territory, and the expansion of public health services and care for mental disorders.
Finally, he stressed that as a control measure it was determined that the ports were administered by the Navy and customs by the Army.
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