Mexican president targets US weapons manufacturers if cartels are labeled as terrorist groups

The Mexican president on Friday warned US weapons manufacturers so they could face fresh legal proceedings and consider themselves to be a presenter if Washington indicates Mexicans drug cartels as a terrorist group.

“If these criminal groups declare terrorists, then we will have to expand the US lawsuit,” Claudia Sheinbaum said at a daily press conference.

A new accusation could include the alleged “memory” of weapons with terrorist groups, she said.

Sheinbaum said that the US Ministry of Justice itself admitted that “74% of weapons” used by criminal groups in Mexico comes from the north of the border.

It is estimated that 200,000 to half a million US firearms are smuggled every year in Mexico, Reported “60 minutes” in December.

A 2023 Reports CBS The investigation found that dozens of ticket cracking of networks, which operate like terrorist cells, pay Americans to buy weapons of weapons and weapons of weapons and online dealers across the country, as long as it is north of Wisconsin and even Alaska, according to US intelligence sources. The firearm is then shipped over the southwestern border through the mediator chain and couriers.

Thursday New York Times reported That the US State Department plans to classify criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela as a “terrorist organization”.

Carties Targets in Mexico are Cartel SinaloWho,, Jalisco New Generation CarteNortheast Cartel, the Michoacan family and the United Carte, reported The Times.

Mexico is already filed a lawsuit In the United States against US weapons manufacturers and suppliers, who require compensation of $ 10 billion for their alleged role in criminal violence in the country.

Earlier this month, sheinbaum angrily refused to charge by the United States that her government has an alliance with drug cartels.

“We categorically reject the slander made by the White House against the Mexican government on federations with criminal organizations,” wrote on social networks at that time.

“If there is such an alliance anywhere, in US stores with rifles, they sell weapons with great forces with these criminal groups,” she added.

Last month Sheinbaum launched a campaign to break the number of weapons on the streets of the country Cash To those who anonymously leave weapons at certain places of departure, including churches.

Earlier this week, Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla said an American military aircraft may have spying on the cartels During recent flights near Mexican territory. Asked if the aircraft was spying on Mexican drug dealers, the general said, “We can’t turn it off because we don’t know what they did.”

Tensions between closely related neighbors rose after the White House said Trump would joke 25% tariffs Both Mexican and Canadian goods due to illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

Threatening tariffs were stopped for 30 days.