Hours after US President Donald Trump imposed broad tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, citing illegal immigration and drug trafficking as major threats, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo dismissed the accusations as “slander” from the White House.
Sheinbaum rejected Trump’s repeated suggestions that the Mexican government has ties with criminal organisations. “If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the United States armories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups, as demonstrated by the United States Department of Justice itself in January of this year,” she said in a post on ‘X’.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticised the US government over fentanyl consumption, a powerful synthetic opioid. She said that in four months, Mexico has seized over 40 tons of drugs, including 20 million doses of fentanyl. More than 10,000 people linked to these groups have been arrested, she added.
Sheinbaum further blasted the US for failing to control drug consumption and “sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities.”
“Drug consumption and distribution is in their country (US), and that is a public health problem that they have not addressed,” she said. She also blamed the US opioid crisis on lax regulations. “The synthetic opioid epidemic in the United States has its origin in the indiscriminate prescription of drugs of this type, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as demonstrated by the lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company,” she stated.
The Mexican President suggested that the US launch a large-scale campaign to curb drug consumption and protect its youth, similar to efforts in Mexico.
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