While the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, warns that he will designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as soon as he takes office, he seems to understand little that the weapons used by the criminal gangs in Mexico come from the American university, which is why President Claudia Sheinbaum recalled that she will not accept "interference" in what is done on Mexican territory.
"I said it in the letter I wrote to President Donald Trump, who will take office in January of next year: that's where drugs are consumed, mainly; that's where weapons come from, and that's where we put our lives. That's not true," said President Sheinbaum at a rally in Mazatl, Sinaloa, on Sunday afternoon.
In his speech, he stressed that Mexico intends to collaborate and work together, but not to allow other countries, such as the United States, to interfere in the nation's national security.
"We collaborate, we coordinate, we work together, but we will never subordinate ourselves. Mexico is a free, sovereign and independent country and we do not accept interference in our country," the president said.
He pointed out that in Mico the National Security Strategy is being implemented, which has as its main focus attention to the causes, to prevent juveniles from getting close to criminal groups and also to strengthen zero impunity.
"The most important thing for us is to build peace, throughout the country," he said.
This Sunday, the program "60 Minutes of Overtime," broadcast by CBS News, made an extensive account of the issue of weapons used by cartels in Mexico, which are trafficked from the United States and how difficult it is to buy an authorized and legal weapon in the country, unlike in the neighboring country to the north.
And it is that, record, it is estimated that between 200,000 and half a million American firearms are smuggled into Mexico annually, a fact for which the Mexican government has filed two lawsuits: one against the arms manufacturer Smith & Wesson and one of its wholesalers, and another that includes five American gun stores.
“If you believe that fentanyl overdoses are a problem, if you believe that migration across the border is a problem, if you believe that the expansion of organized crime is a problem in the United States, then you should be concerned about stopping the flow of guns coming into Mexico. And you need to stop it at the source, because all of those problems are driven by the supply of American weapons to the cartels,” said American lawyer Jonathan Lowy in an interview with 60 Minutes.
The media also noted that while in Mexico there is only one gun store in the entire country, located at the military base in Mexico City, in the United States there are more than 75 thousand active dealers.
In addition, in Mexico, getting a gun is no easy task. 60 Minutes witnessed how getting a pistol or a low-caliber rifle is an odyssey, since this requires a special permit, psychological tests, drug detection tests, and extensive background checks.
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