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After President Andrés Manuel López Obrador established his position regarding the initiative of Republican congressmen who are considering the intervention of the United States military in the fight against drug trafficking in Mexico, Senator Lindsey Graham responded by calling the Aztec country a “narco-state”.
It was upon his departure from the US Senate that the official made statements to the media NTN24which were linked at the same time his controversial initiative as well as the security strategy that President Tabasco promoted in Mexico.
In this way, Lindsey Graham has endorsed her interest in working with the so-called Fourth Transformation government as she considers that “the Mexican people are suffering from these drug cartels that have turned the state into a narco-state in some areas”.
The Republican senator also expressed concern over the more than 70,000 deaths recorded last year in the United States linked to fentanyl that Mexican cartels send daily to the country ruled by Joe Biden.
Likewise, and with a stimulating message, Lindsey Graham urged Mexico’s president to ‘quit his game’ work together to eradicate the problem affecting American citizens.
Let us recall that the President of Tabasco accused the initiative of the Republican members of Congress, Lindsey Graham and John Neely Kennedy, of an attempt at US interventionism in Mexicofor which he assured that his government “will not take orders from anyone”.
Given this, Lindsay Graham responded that US lawmakers were not going to sit idly by and that they had the ability to stand up for their people. Although he insisted that he would like to work with the president of Mexico, andThe Republican senator criticized his security strategy, assuring that it does not produce results.
“Does not work. more hugs“, underlined the Republican in an interview with the media NTN24.
In addition to ensuring that Andrés Manuel López Obrador lost control of his own countrythe Republican senator called on Mexicans to “remember, when they go to vote, that they are living in hell”.
Lindsey Graham threw a blunt dart at consider that Andrés Manuel López Obrador is making political theater with his initiative and that if he does not change his behavior, his country will not sit idly by.
“If you don’t change your behavior and your own citizens suffer, my country is not going to sit idly by andOr will it just be the drug trade, which has created a narco-state in Mexico?“, pleaded the Republican senator.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 8, the Republican senators of the United States announced that they would introduce a bill favoring declare drug cartels in Mexico as foreign terrorist organizations.
This proposal was made by Lindsey Graham and John Neely Kennedy with the aim of being able to activate more mechanisms to fight against these criminal groups, such as the intervention of the American army.
It was during a press conference that the delegates specified that this initiative is presented as a Response to the US fentanyl boom where it left over 71,000 overdose dead.
Since then, Lindsey Graham has called the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “Narcoterrorist statesince, he said, it allows criminal organizations to act with impunity.
According to their list, the cartels they are considering registering as “terrorists” are: Sinaloathat of Jalisco Nueva Generation (CJNG), that of the Gulf, The Zetasthat of the northeast, that of Juárez, that of Tijuana, that of Beltran Leyva and The Michoacan Family.