“There is so much intelligence, well, we are finding out where it comes out, where it enters, where it is manufactured, how it is distributed, and that will give us a lot of information so that each person in their country can act in a coordinated manner,” said the head of the Executive during her usual press conference.

She said that this is what her administration is proposing and constitutes part of the conversations held with the United States authorities after the agreement reached on February 3 to pause for a month the tariffs that Washington threatens to impose on Mexican products.

“This Friday, we would need to be reaching important agreements and I would be, if necessary, looking for another phone call with President (Donald) Trump. Whatever it takes to reach an agreement,” she said.

The president questioned that it is only said that the precursors enter through Mexico and Canada and urged to investigate whether they arrive through the United States.

“We are going to help the United States for this humanitarian crisis they have, but we also do not want the drugs to go anywhere. (…) In that we have to collaborate and coordinate, but we have to do a review of the three countries,” she emphasized.

Sheinbaum insisted that the great consumption of narcotics is in the neighboring northern nation and Washington must also determine which are those cartels that sell fentanyl in the United States and where the money laundering of those resources is.

“We are going to cooperate and coordinate precisely because we do not want this to exist. But there is also a part where we all have to address drug use with a public health vision,” he said.

He reiterated his country’s willingness to always collaborate by demanding respect for sovereignty and stressed that the government of this Latin American nation is also doing its job to reduce the rates of insecurity and high-impact crimes linked to drug trafficking.

According to official data, Mexico captured 11,600 individuals in just over four months and seized 5,692 firearms, as well as 102 tons of drugs, including 1,210 kilograms and 1,266,000 fentanyl pills.

The Sheinbaum administration, which began on October 1, implements a security strategy based on four axes: attention to the causes, consolidation of the National Guard, strengthening of intelligence and investigation, and coordination with the federal entities.

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