Written in NATIONAL on 03/19/2023 16:53
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) he met with 12 United States legislators and officialsthis in the National Palace, a place where the Chancellor was also present Marcelo Ebrard.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard, announced issues such as migration, combating human trafficking fentanylthe dispute over transgenic maize and the modernization of customs in the north of the country during the four and a half hours that the bilateral meeting lasted.
Ebrard stated that none of the lawmakers supported the Republican proposal for an intervention by US forces in Mexico to fight organized crime, and the need for greater cooperation was raised, according to information provided by Sara Pablo, a reporter for formula group.
The meeting with senators and representatives from the United States ended very well. Everyone respects Mexico and its government,” Ebrard wrote on Twitter.
President López Obrador mentioned this on Twitter at the meeting “Various issues were discussed with mutual respect and for the benefit of our people.” In a previous publication, he recalled the rally marking the 85th anniversary of the oil expropriation, noting that Mexico was an independent and sovereign nation.
Also present at the meeting between the United States Legislature and AMLO Ken Salazar, United States Ambassador to Mexico, who has made no official statement on the matter. Also present at the meeting were Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of the Secretariat for Citizen Security and Protection (SSyPC), and Raquel Buenrostro from the economy.
That’s what López Obrador said on March 18 on the plate of the capital’s Zócalo Mexico “is not a colony or a protectorate” of the United Statesdue to Republican initiatives seeking the use of military force in Mexico to stop cartels and the fentanyl trade.
During this event, AMLO referred to the former President Felipe Calderon and the former security minister, Genaro Garcia Luna, whom he accused of having “shady connections” to US authorities. Recall that García Luna has been found guilty in connection with trafficking in illegal substances and is awaiting sentencing by a US court.
For its part, the United States government, led by Joe BidenHe has declined that he will send the military to Mexico and even that he will call the cartels terrorist organizations; They insisted they will increase collaboration with their Mexican counterparts to address this issue.
With information from Sara Pablo