AMLO called Republican lawmakers ‘wimps, interventionists and arrogant’

The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorclaimed this Friday in the United States that his government fought fentanyl as “person” after the visit of the person in charge of the White House for this affair, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

“Back in the days that we lived, that’s when fentanyl was confiscated the most, six tons, and do the math, for every pound of fentanyl there’s a million doses, and what we confiscated, it’s six tons, 60,000 kilos, nobody did it“, he said in his daily press conference.

López Obrador referred to Thursday’s meeting with White House national security adviser Sherwood-Randall, who was in Mexico amid controversy over the four Americans kidnapped by a suspected cartel a week ago in the border town from Matamoros. , where two of them died.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, affirmed after the meeting that “there were no claims“from Washington and that the American authorities have recognized that Mexico is working”efficiently and quickly.

“We have dealt with the issue of fentanyl, weapons and respecting the sovereignty of our country“López Obrador now comments.

Washington has increased the pressure to fentanyl trafficking, a synthetic opioid made in Mexico with chemicals from China that caused Hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States.

Tensions mounted after the kidnapping of the Americans and proposals by the Republican Party in Washington to declare war on Mexican drug cartels and designate them as terrorist groups.

López Obrador says “pimps, interventionists and arrogantto Republicans, whom he accused of hypocrisy and not really caring about fentanyl.

“In reality, some Republican lawmakers don’t care, but what they want is to break electoral politics, which is why the arrogance, the arrogance of saying that if we don’t act on crime in Mexico, they will promote an initiative in Congress for the armed forces to intervene“, said.

López Obrador warned that next week Foreign Minister Ebrard will hold a meeting in Washington with Mexican consuls in the United States to strategize ahead of the Republicans’ initiative.

“We’re going to stand up for our sovereignty and President (Joe) Biden doesn’t have that position, it’s these Republican lawmakers, And if they continue to offend Mexico, we will continue to denounce them and we will ask our compatriots not to vote for them.“, he remarked.

Regarding the case of the kidnapped Americans, he announced that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) will take the case.

“We have learned that they have a criminal record in the United States and a thorough investigation is already underway,” he said.