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The senator Ricardo Montreal assured on Tuesday that The United States would not dare to invade Mexico fight the cartels Drug trafficas suggested by republican deputies of this country, as he described it as “absurd and unacceptable.

In front of the senators, the morenista pointed out that there are no conditions for an invasion, as this would cause a harsh reaction from the Mexican government in the sense of not admitting the minimum of interference.

And it is that he pointed out that the hypothetical army of another country is a flagrant violation of sovereigntyas he recalled that for any North American agent to enter Mexico, authorization is required. written permission.

“We cannot accept crude interventions from foreign governments. We cannot accept what happened in 1948, with the Treaty of Guadalupe, where we lost more than half of the national territory and where the United States invaded us. These steps are over and will not come back”

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(Photo: Reuters)

“That would be absolutely unacceptable. It’s a decision (to intervene) barbara”he added.

In this sense, the also president of the Political Coordination Council (Jucopo) reiterated that said proposal is part of the American electoral process. However, he warned that Mexico cannot be used as a piñata or a clown for electoral rhetoric, although he acknowledged that organized crime in our country generates anxiety.

For his part, the vice-coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Manuel Añorve, assured that it was time to deal with organized crime and stressed that the best way to calm relations with the United States would be to arrest those responsible for what happened in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Meanwhile, Movimiento Ciudadano coordinator Clemente Castañeda stressed that the federal government must recognize that organized crime is completely out of control.

A woman is dragged from the back of a white van in this still image obtained from social media video that allegedly shows the kidnapping of Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, March 3, 2023. Video obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE IS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.  NO RESALE.  NO ARCHIVES.  REUTERS WAS ABLE TO CONFIRM THE LOCATION AS MATAMOROS, MEXICO USING GOOGLE IMAGES AND MAPS.  A BUILDING, STAIRS AND TREES SEEN IN THE AREA'S MATCH FILE IMAGERY VIDEO.  PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF THE SAME INCIDENT, IN THE SAME LOCATION, SHOWS A WHITE MINIVAN LISTED BY THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN MEXICO.  THE APPEARANCE OF A WOMAN IN THE VIDEO ALSO MATCHED THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND THREE OTHER PEOPLE WERE SEEN ON THE GROUND IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
A woman is dragged from the back of a white van in this still image obtained from social media video that allegedly shows the kidnapping of Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, March 3, 2023. Video obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE IS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALE. NO ARCHIVES. REUTERS WAS ABLE TO CONFIRM THE LOCATION AS MATAMOROS, MEXICO USING GOOGLE IMAGES AND MAPS. A BUILDING, STAIRS AND TREES SEEN IN THE AREA’S MATCH FILE IMAGERY VIDEO. PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF THE SAME INCIDENT, IN THE SAME LOCATION, SHOWS A WHITE MINIVAN LISTED BY THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN MEXICO. THE APPEARANCE OF A WOMAN IN THE VIDEO ALSO MATCHED THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND THREE OTHER PEOPLE WERE SEEN ON THE GROUND IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS.

This statement comes after four US citizens were shot and attacked by a criminal group on March 3 in the city of Matamoros, Tamauilipas, who then abducted them.

The victims were identified as Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Eric James Williams and Zindell Brown. However, this Tuesday morning, Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal reported that only McGee was rescued, who was uninjured, while Williams suffered a gunshot wound to one of his legs. Both have already been transferred to the United States.

According to the state attorney general’s office, one of the lines of inquiry is that said travelers they were mistaken for drug dealers by elements of organized crime, possibly the Gulf Cartel.

However, the reason for their stay is that they were accompanying Tay McGee to the city of matamorosas he intended to submit to a abdominoplastya procedure plastic surgery to eliminate abdominal fat.

(Photo: AP)
(Photo: AP)

In this regard, the American Attorney General, Merrick Garland, assured that the government of his country will do everything in its power to bring them justice.

In a press conference, the official pointed out that US security agencies are already coordinating with Mexican authorities to investigate the facts, locate those responsible and bring them to justice as soon as possible:

“We will do everything in our power to identify, find and hold accountable the individuals responsible for this attack on American citizens.”

“I have been briefed by the FBI, which works with Mexican authorities, and senior department officials are working closely with our State Department counterparts,” he added.

In addition, he took the opportunity to send his condolences to the families of the victims: “in these difficult times, I want to offer my deepest condolences to the families of the Americans who were attacked and kidnapped”.

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