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Republicans suggest everything from terrorist labels to an invasion to decimate drug cartels in Mexico.
A growing number of prominent Republicans are rallying around the idea that to solve the fentanyl crisis, America must bomb it away.
In recent weeks, Donald Trump has discussed sending “special forces” and using “cyber warfare” to target cartel leaders if he’s reelected president and, per Rolling Stone, asked for “battle plans” to strike Mexico. Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said he is open to sending U.S. troops into Mexico to target drug lords even without that nation’s permission. And lawmakers in both chambers have filed legislation to label some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move supported by GOP presidential aspirants.
Mexico's President AMLO says the United States cannot talk about human rights with Julian Assange detained, cartel violence with President Joe Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipeline, or democracy while arresting the leading presidential candidate Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/BIh93L1I43
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'Why not allow the people to decide,' López Obrador asked when discussing the Trump legal battle
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to side with for former President Donald Trump amid his ongoing legal battle with the Manhattan district attorney's office, slamming the potential indictment as a way to prevent Trump from seeking the White House in 2024.
"Right now, former President Trump is declaring that they are going to arrest him," López Obrador said Tuesday during a press conference, according to transcribed remarks from Newsweek. "If that were the case… it would be so that his name doesn't appear on the ballot."
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed back Thursday against Republican lawmakers who have urged the Biden administration to take military action against the country’s drug cartels across the border after the abduction of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros. He said such demands threatened Mexican sovereignty.
“We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene and much less foreign armed forces to intervene in our territory,” López Obrador said at a news conference, adding that he would ask Americans of Mexican and Hispanic origin not to vote for Republicans if their “aggression” continued.
López Obrador also sought to deflect attention from Mexico’s role in the fentanyl epidemic. He claimed his country does not produce the substance, which is responsible for the majority of U.S. drug overdose deaths, and cast its abuse as an American problem. U.S. law enforcement officials have said fentanyl is mass-produced by Mexican drug cartels and then distributed by American criminal networks.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he, U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to strengthen their economic, trade and commercial relations with the creation of a new joint committee.
Obrador said the committee will focus on planning trade in North America to increase self-sufficiency and development for their countries. Each nation will appoint four members for the creation of the committee, he said during a press conference at the close of the North American Leaders' Summit on Tuesday.
The Mexican president was flanked by Biden and Trudeau during the event, following two days of meetings to discuss regional and global issues. The trio charted out plans to work together on economic issues, security and climate change.
WNU Editor: Not much was expected from this summit, and not much was delivered. But these summits are always important for leaders to meet, discuss issues, and exchange points of views.
Leaders From U.S., Mexico and Canada Vow To Strengthen Economic Ties
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s election czar delivered a message to the American ambassador: The Mexican president was mounting an all-out assault on the national elections authority, sowing doubt about a pillar of the country’s democracy.
But instead of expressing alarm, America’s top diplomat in Mexico took up one of the president’s lines of attack, entertaining claims that an election long in the past, in 2006, had been stolen from the Mexican leader.
The ambassador, Ken Salazar, said in an interview that he was not convinced that the election was clean, challenging the stance of the United States at a time when democracy is under threat at home and across the hemisphere.
WNU Editor: Presidential elections being stolen is not the message that the Biden administration wants to send out right now when many in the U.S. believe the 2020 US Presidential election was stolen from President Trump.
OTTAWA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to host an in-person meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Nov. 18, the first of its kind in more than five years, a source in Ottawa said on Tuesday.
Three other people familiar with the matter had said final details were still being worked out but if the meeting goes ahead it would most likely be some time next week in Washington.
Sources based in Ottawa and Mexico City requested anonymity because the plans were not yet public.
"A Border Patrol facility is no place for a child," said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will help shelter and transfer a record number of child migrants showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Homeland Security secretary said Saturday.
While the administration of President Joe Biden has avoided calling the situation a national emergency as former President Donald Trump declared in 2019, it acknowledged a rising number of "encounters" at the border since April.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said FEMA would help children found at the border avoid being treated as detainees of Customs and Border Protection and move them more quickly into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
WNU Editor: After saying for weeks that there was no crisis or national emergency at the border, the White House is now singing a different tune.
But even FEMA's involvement is not enough.
Readers of this blog and friends that I know who live in the Americas are all telling me the same thing. The economic and pandemic situation is so dire for tens of million in Central and South America, that many are looking to flee. And when people like President Biden, Vice-President Harris, and House speaker Pelosi talk about granting amnesty to all those who come, do nto be surprised when millions decide to take them on that offer.
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'The administration's focus is on ensuring that every American is vaccinated,' Jen Psaki tells reporters
The White House spokesperson today ruled out sending vaccines to continental partners like Canada and Mexico, saying U.S. President Joe Biden is committed to getting every American vaccinated before sharing doses with other countries.
During a White House press briefing today, Jen Psaki was asked if Biden was considering sharing part of the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine supply with allies. "No," she replied.
"The president has made clear that he is focused on ensuring that vaccines are accessible to every American. That is our focus," she added.
Mexican journalists were quick to point out the error
Secretary of State Antony Blinken left some Mexicans baffled on Friday after displaying the Mexican flag upside down during a virtual meeting with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard.
Blinken posted a picture of himself seated at a desk in front of the American and Mexican flags ahead of his meeting with Ebrard.
(Bloomberg) -- If President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was looking for ammunition in his quest to cut Mexico’s reliance on foreign energy, it would be hard to top the electricity blackouts affecting the north of the country.
Mexico reported 4.77 million homes and businesses losing power Monday after imports of natural gas from the U.S. were curbed, knocking power stations offline.
The disruption is a spillover of the worst electricity crisis in recent history in the U.S., where freakishly cold weather cut oil and gas output.
Mexico has restored 80% of electricity in northern states and expects power to fully return Wednesday or Thursday, Lopez Obrador said at a press briefing Tuesday. But he didn’t miss the opportunity to make a political point.
FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to the national anthem as he arrives to address the nation on his second anniversary as President of Mexico, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s president on Thursday blasted social media companies for blocking the accounts of President Donald Trump for his part in chaotic scenes in Washington on Wednesday, again appearing to cleave to his U.S. counterpart in a contentious dispute.
Four people died during the havoc that erupted after pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to force Congress to block the appointment of President-elect Joe Biden, whose Nov. 3 election victory Trump has cast as fraudulent.
Many U.S. allies condemned the events at the Capitol, which Biden said bordered on “sedition.”
However, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was reluctant to comment on what occurred at the Capitol, reiterating a position that his government does not meddle in the affairs of other nations.
WNU Editor: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador can relate to President Trump. He experienced the same media and establishment treatment when he ran for President in 2006 and 2012. Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is also not a supporter of President-elect Biden's views on U.S. - Mexico relations .... Mexico's president one of last world leaders to formally congratulate Biden (NBC). Mind you .... the feeling is also mutual from the incoming Biden administration ....Mexican president says has no invite to Biden's inauguration (Reuters).
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday again declined to congratulate Joe Biden for winning the U.S. presidential election, making him stand out increasingly among world leaders who have withheld their recognition.
Speaking shortly after China’s President Xi Jinping congratulated Biden for his victory, Lopez Obrador reiterated that it would be wrong to offer congratulations until the electoral process has been formally concluded.
“We do not agree with offering congratulations in advance,” Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government news conference. “What’s the best thing? For us to wait.”
WNU Editor: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador believes election fraud and ballot stuffing was used to defeat him when he ran for the Presidency in 2012. He knows first hand what election fraud looks like, and will refrain from saying anything about the US election until after U.S. state electors make it official in December that Biden is the next US President.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador will wait for courts to rule on Trump lawsuits in bid to avoid friction
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday he would not congratulate a winner of the US presidential election until legal challenges are concluded, in an apparent bid to avoid friction with Washington during the transition.
Democrat Joe Biden won the election on Saturday after a victory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania put him over the threshold of 270 electoral college votes.
Mexico is the United States’ top trade partner, with over $600bn of annual two-way commerce, and the bilateral relationship with its northern neighbour is by far the most important for Mexico.
WNU Editor: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was twice denied the Presidency. He knows what voter fraud looks like from personal experience, and will say nothing until it is official.
What also caught my eye from his news conference was his praise of President Trump for not interfering in Mexico's internal affairs during his Presidency.
Salvador Cienfuegos was held at Los Angeles airport on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. He was a powerful figure in the war against Mexico's drug cartels, a fight that has left nearly 300,000 people dead.
A former Mexican defense minister and army chief, Salvador Cienfuegos, has been arrested in the United States on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, authorities confirmed on Thursday.
Cienfuegos, who was defense chief from 2012 until 2018, was reportedly on a trip with his family when he was detained at Los Angeles airport.
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and U.S. President Donald Trump make joint statements in the White House Cross Hall before holding a working dinner together at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday that Donald Trump had drastically changed the way he talks about Mexico’s people, in the leftist leader’s latest warm words about the U.S. president who has a history of upsetting Mexicans.
Lopez Obrador’s comments came a day after the two men met for the first time at the White House, where the Mexican president praised Trump for showing “kindness and respect” toward his country. That drew angry responses from critics in Mexico.
Lopez Obrador told television network Telemundo that in the past, Trump, a Republican, had a certain “vision” of Mexicans. But that was different now, he said.
“He has completely changed his rhetoric,” Lopez Obrador said. “The relationship with President Trump is very good and, as I said yesterday, he has treated us like friends, not as distant neighbors.”
WNU Editor: I do not think President Trump has changed. I think what has changed is Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Over the past four years of the Trump Presidency I have lost count on how many times I have read stories of people who meet President Trump leave with a totally different point of view of him. It is as if they bought into the media narrative on who he is, and realize it is not true when they deal with him. In the case of Mexico, or any other country for that matter, I see President Trump as being a US President who prioritizes America first, not being someone who is against the other country. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has clearly figured that out, and is using his relationship with President Trump to get the best deal for Mexico.
* There are more than 2,000 cases of coronavirus in the US now with 43 dead
* In Mexico, there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no reported deaths
* Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said: 'Mexico wouldn't bring the virus to the United States, rather the United States would bring it here'
* Trump has boasted that the situation in the US would be worse if it weren't for his tough stance on the border
* From midnight on Friday, flights from Europe to the US will be suspended
For once, the conversation over closing the US-Mexico border is being driven b Mexican health officials who say they are considering shutting out Americans to keep coronavirus out of their country.
There are currently more than 2,000 cases of the virus in the US and it is spreading rapidly. Forty-three people have died from it.
By contrast in Mexico, there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.
At a press conference on Friday, health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said: 'Mexico wouldn't bring the virus to the United States, rather the United States would bring it here.
WNU Editor: The concerns from the Mexic'sHealth Minister are justified. The U.S. is shutting down right now, with restaurants, hotels, and other labour intensive occupations being impacted directly. Instead of staying home for the next few months, I would not be surprised if many who are from Mexico may make the decision to return to Mexico until this is all over instead of staying home.
Mexico had asked the US not to label cartels as terrorist groups due to concerns over sovereignty. The issue came to the fore after nine US-Mexican citizens were killed by cartel members in early November.
US President Donald Trump said Friday he would temporarily refrain from designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.
The decision came in response to a request from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose government said the terrorism label would infringe on its sovereignty.
"All necessary work has been completed to declare Mexican Cartels terrorist organizations,'' Trump wrote on Twitter. ``Statutorily we are ready to do so."
* US President Donald Trump claims Mexican drug cartels are to blame for 100,000 American deaths a year
* The US Foreign Terror Organisation list includes Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram in Nigeria
Mexico’s government expressed alarm after US President Donald Trump said he was planning to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations, a move that officials here fear could complicate security cooperation and trade between the neighbours.
“Mexico will never accept any action that violates our national sovereignty,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard tweeted.
“We will act firmly. I have sent our position to the US as well as our resolution on combating transnational organised crime.”
The Foreign Ministry said Ebrard would contact Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to set up an urgent meeting to discuss “this theme of high relevance for the bilateral agenda”.
WNU Editor: President Trump commitment to designate these groups as terrorists can be heard in the above video. Mexico's alarm on this development is not a surprise. But the Mexican government must know that the current strategy of stopping these criminal organizations is not working. In fact it is reaching levels of violence that is unprecedented.
* At least nine U.S. citizens, including six children, who live in the Mexican border state of Sonora were killed in a shooting attack Monday
* Rhonita Maria LeBaron, died along with her 6-month-old twins and her two other children, aged 10 and 12
* Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of Dawna's children, aged 11 and three, were also killed
* The victims belong to the LeBaron family - a breakaway Mormon community that settled in the hills of northern Mexico decades ago
* At the time of the attack, 17 of the family members were traveling in three cars from the settlement
* There are reports some of the family members, who were dual U.S.-Mexico citizens, were heading to celebrate a wedding anniversary
* According to relatives, drug cartel gunman opened fire and torched vehicles as the victims burned to death
* One child tried to run away but was gunned down while others escaped and hid on the nearby roadside
President Donald Trump has waged a war on Mexican drug cartels after three American mothers and six children from a Mormon community based in northern Mexico were massacred by cartel gunmen.
The victims, who belonged to the LeBaron family, were ambushed about eight miles apart in the Mexican border state of Sonora on Monday.
At the time of the attack, 17 of the family members were traveling in three cars from La Mora - a breakaway settlement founded decades ago in northern Mexico as part an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
There are reports some of the family members, who were dual U.S.-Mexico citizens, were heading to celebrate a wedding anniversary.
WNU Editor: Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador is trying to make peace with the drug cartels by not enforcing the rule of law. Can someone please tell him that there are some people that can never be reasoned with .... Mexico's president under pressure over 'hugs not bullets' cartel policy (The Guardian).
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