Mexico President Says Trump Labeling Cartels Terrorists Won’t Reduce Crime
- Sheinbaum urges collaboration on fight against crime, drugs
- Trump order classifies cartels as terrorist organizations
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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum said that Donald Trump’s decision to classify drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations won’t reduce crime, urging the new US president to work with her nation on security and drug prevention instead.
Trump has pressed Mexico to stem the flow of drugs across the border into the US, but Sheinbaum argued that his executive order targeting cartels and other criminal organizations will only complicate its efforts to seize fentanyl and fight crime.