The Mexican Foreign Ministry told the New York Times that it is seeking a meeting to learn “the content and the reach” of the latest announcement.
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December 10, 2019President Trump said in a newly released interview that he is moving to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organisations.
The decision reportedly has prompted the Mexican government to ask the administration for clarification, but Trump told Bill O’Reilly, in an interview posted to his website, that the process is well underway.
“I have been working on that for the last 90 days,” he told O’Reilly, the author and former Fox News Channel host who now has a podcast. “You know, the designation is not that easy, you have to go through a process, and we are well into that process.”
The news comes weeks after the brutal killings of dual Mexican and American citizens in the northern part of Mexico. Though drug cartels have a reputation for cold-blooded murders, the ambush on Nov. 4 in the Mormon community in La Mora—which included the deaths of six children and three women—sent shockwaves in the U.S. and drew the president’s attention.
At the time, Trump called on Mexico to “wage war” on the cartels.
The former head of the Chicago DEA, who spent years fighting the Mexican drug cartels and brought down the infamous drug lord “El Chapo,” said he “applauds” President Trump for pushing to designate the cartels as terrorist organisations.
“The president is showing real leadership if he can get that done,” former DEA agent Jack Riley told Fox News. “There are so many people inside and outside of Congress, the pundits, that will be against it. But this is exactly what is necessary. We have the tools. This would be a game-changer.”
Trump did not indicate exactly how the U.S. policy would change from past years, but said he told Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the U.S. stands ready to “go in and clean it out.” The Mexican president rejected the offer, Trump said, according to the BBC.