:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/KADLORPII5HA3D6HGARKBW7PV4.jpg "US intervention to curb drug trafficking in Mexico will hurt bilateral relationship, warns Ricardo Monreal 1")
In the midst of a crisis fentanyl consumption which claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people in UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES), the Congress of the North American nation discusses the possible intervention of its army in Mexico to fight against drug cartels.
However, a proposal promoted by Texas congressman And Crenshaw sound the alarm for the senator Ricardo Monreal Avilawho warned that a possible approval of the proposal – which he described as interventionist — could damage bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico.
“From now on, the call is for it (the proposal) to be rejected, otherwise the relationship between the two countries could be greatly affected.”
Crenshaw’s approach, supported by the legislator Michael Waltz establishes the granting of powers to the Chief Executive of the United States to authorize the use of “necessary and appropriate” force against foreign nations or organizations that traffic in fentanyl or fentanyl-like substances.
Given this, Monreal Ávila insisted in an opinion column that the argument of the proposal obeys a meaning interventionist with a view to “finding culprits or scapegoats”.
Thus, the President of the Political Coordination Council (Jucopo) reaffirmed that the solution to the public health crisis “requires joint actions”; the same thing that, he claimed, the government of Mexico would have accomplished in terms of combating drug trafficking and preventing addictions.
“If the demand for the product were not so high, the motivation to produce and sell it would not exist.he noted in his writings, while acknowledging that supply and distribution — done in both countries — has affected addiction prevention.
Thus, he called for “escaping the temptation to seek political gain” to blame a single country or a single body, as the Attorney General of the United States would have done, Merrick Garland, who, in an appearance, pointed out to the Mexican cartels that they “on purpose” increase the flow of fentanyl to the United States and that the Mexican government “can do a lot more” to combat it.
A statement that Monreal Ávila also criticized after telling the context of the current public health crisis in the American Union, and which, he pointed out, would have its roots in two specific actions: ineffective medical regulations and inability to combat drug trafficking.
This, he added, coupled with the neighboring country’s ineffective strategies to regulate the medical use of opioids and the illicit trafficking of fentanyl, as well as the harmful effect of this drug on the human body – since it is considered up to 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin.
“The level of addiction and the great public health problem that this drug causes in the United States is understandable,” he said.
On March 1, the current United States Attorney General acknowledged the role of the Mexican government in combating fentanyl trafficking. However, he said it might do “much more”.
“They help us, but they could do a lot more. I have no doubt about that.”
To this, Garland considered that the “horrible epidemic“which plagues the United States, and which killed more than 100,000 people in 2022, was caused by the Mexican cartels of Sinaloa And the one of Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).
“The drug dealers who manufacture these pills and distribute them to UNITED STATES They are the most horrible people imaginable,” he said in an appearance and said he was not against the statement by groups such as “terrorist organizations”.