Sheinbaum wastes no time in rejecting US Attorney General’s ‘adversary’ accusation

After U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi referred to Mexico arsenic an adversary for “drugging our children,” President Claudia Sheinbaum was speedy to respond.

“[Bondi] is not precise good informed, to beryllium honest,” Sheinbaum said astatine her Thursday greeting property conference, rejecting the accusation. “There is simply a large woody of practice [between Mexico and the U.S.], and we are astir to finalize a caller information accord.” 

At her greeting property league Thursday, President Sheinbaum responded to Pam Bondi’s verbal agression by calmly pointing retired that the U.S. Attorney General is “not precise good informed.” (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

Sheinbaum was referring to the contents of a associated communique that was issued aboriginal Thursday by the Mexican and U.S. Defense ministries pursuing reciprocal visits made by starring members of the nations’ respective militaries. Mexico’s Defense Ministry outlined the bilateral practice successful a Facebook post connected Thursday.

During a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee proceeding connected Wednesday, Bondi referred to Mexico arsenic an adversary erstwhile asked astir nationalist information issues.

In effect to a question astir Iran posed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, Bondi defended U.S. President Donald Trump’s overseas argumentation saying: “Donald Trump has said it large and clear: We won’t beryllium intimidated and we’ll support the United States safe, not lone from Iran, but besides from Russia, China and Mexico … from immoderate overseas adversary that tries to termination us.”

The U.S. lawyer wide qualified her words by arguing that threats bash not lone travel from carnal attacks, but besides from phenomena specified arsenic cause overdoses. In that sense, she suggested that the travel of fentanyl and different substances from Mexico represents a signifier of indirect aggression against Americans.

“From immoderate overseas adversary, whether they effort to termination america physically oregon by drugging our children,” Bondi said.

When asked if Mexico is cooperating to code the fentanyl crisis, she equivocated, suggesting the contented should beryllium discussed privately.

Bondi’s comments came the aforesaid time the U.S. Treasury Department accused 3 Mexican banking institutions of participating successful wealth laundering for organized transgression groups progressive successful fentanyl trafficking betwixt Mexico and the United States.

In February, the U.S. State Department designated six Mexican cause cartels arsenic Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

This is not the archetypal clip that Sheinbaum has criticized comments made by a subordinate of Trump’s Cabinet.

Earlier this month, Sheinbaum rejected an unfounded allegation by US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that the Mexican president was “encouraging convulsive protests” against migration raids successful Los Angeles. 

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The reciprocal visits to which Sheinbaum referred connected Thursday resulted successful the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA), which the U.S. Northern Command described arsenic “another beforehand successful our bilateral subject practice with Mexico.”

In a societal media post, the U.S. Northern Command described ACSA arsenic “an International Agreement that volition fortify compatibility and facilitate communal logistical enactment for grooming speech betwixt the U.S. and Mexican equipped forces, based connected the principles of reciprocity, shared and chiseled responsibilities, communal trust, and respect for sovereign decisions and territories.”

With reports from El Financiero, Infobae and La Jornada