Senators rejected US military fights against Mexican cartels

In Republic Senate committees, lawmakers rejected U.S. congressman’s proposal to intervene military form on the national territory, especially at the insistence of the neighboring country to fight against the Mexican criminal cartels.

It was the Foreign Relations senators who spoke out against the Republican’s recent statements Dan Crenshaw, who sent a direct message to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to allow the “help” of the American authorities in the face of the wave of violence that has been generated in the border towns and, above all, in the face of the problems facing United States Drug traffic by Mexican criminal groups.

“We senators declare our categorically rejected to Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw’s proposal to grant extraordinary powers to the President of the United States … to use the armed forces outside of United States territory,” the lawmakers’ statement said.

In this sense, the senators indicated that “a measure of such magnitude”, if considered, would be a violation of Mexican sovereignty and that they would only lead the authorities away from the diplomatic and peaceful solutions with which the two nations have worked, for which the senators of foreign relations have recommended to the members of the American Congress, as well as to the governors and any non-national authority , of “refrain and to use the problems of both nations for political advantage.

It should be noted that Mexican legislators have recognized the problems of insecurity and organized crime caused by the cartels. However, they considered that the position of American officials only led to their own profit by wanting to intervene in national affairs. In addition, the senators pointed to the implementation of better bilateral strategies to stop the market for weapons that the United States has authorized into Mexican territory.

Thus, the officials of the Senate Committees urged the American authorities to “replant” the objectives of cooperation between the nations concerning the problems which concern the two nations, in order to reach practical agreements for the security of the two countries.

The position of the senators is added to the list of supporters of the first federal president who also rejected the statements of the members of the American Congress a few days ago. Deputies, governors and other political figures, mostly sympathizers of the government of Fourth transformation“They criticized and pointed the finger at the United States’ interventions in the face of the security crisis at the border.

And it is that the case of abduction of americans– where two people lost their lives – succinctly in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, drew different reactions from officials in the neighboring country, who condemned the mexican security strategy against drug cartels. However, among the statements, that of the Republican Dan Crenshaw, who blamed the government of Andrés Manuel for not having accepted arms aid.

In a video message, the American claimed the lack of intervention by the Mexican authorities in the face of the drug addiction crisis that the United States is experiencing, in particular with the fentanyl trafficking, substance that caused a health emergency among the population, which reached 70 thousand people in a short time.

“It’s not just a drug problem anymore. We can live with a drug problem; it’s a mass poisoning problem citizens of the United States and the cartels are directly responsible,” the Republican stressed in his speech.

For his part, President Andrés Manuel condemned these statements, asking the American authorities to respect Mexican sovereignty.