Claudia Sheinbaum declared on Tuesday, January 21st, that President Donald Trump’s executive order moving toward designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would only impact Mexico if there’s close coordination between the two governments.
She said that Mexico would defend its sovereignty and independence while seeking coordination with the U.S. in the wake of the order signed by Trump on Monday, January 20th.
“We all want to fight the drug cartels,” Sheinbaum said at her daily press briefing. The U.S. “in their territory, us in our territory.”
Trump’s order highlighted Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The order says they “threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
The order did not list any Mexican cartels by name but said Cabinet secretaries would recommend groups for designation as terrorist organizations in the next 14 days. It was among a slew of executive orders Trump signed Monday to kick off his administration, several of which focus on securing the southern border.
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