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President of Mexico Statement: Tariffs Activated
We categorically reject the White House's slander of the Government of Mexico for having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention to interfere in our territory.
If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the U.S. gun shops that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups, as demonstrated by the U.S. Department of Justice itself in January of this year.
Our government has secured in four months more than 40 tons of drugs, including 20 million doses of fentanyl. It has also arrested more than 10,000 people linked to these groups.
If the U.S. government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their major cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much damage to their population.
It could also initiate a massive campaign to prevent the consumption of these drugs and take care of its young people, as we have done in Mexico. Drug consumption and distribution is in your country and that is a public health problem that you have not addressed. Furthermore, the epidemic of synthetic opioids in the United States has its origin in the indiscriminate prescription of such drugs, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as demonstrated by the lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company.
Mexico does not want confrontation. We start from collaboration between neighboring countries. Mexico not only does not want fentanyl to reach the United States, it does not want it to reach anywhere. Therefore, if the United States wants to combat the criminal groups that traffic drugs and generate violence, we must work together in a comprehensive manner, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, collaboration and above all, respect for sovereignty, which is non-negotiable. Coordination, yes; subordination, no.
To this end, I propose to President Trump that we establish a working table with our best security and public health teams.
It is not by imposing tariffs that problems are solved, but by talking and dialoguing as we have done in recent weeks with his State Department to address the phenomenon of migration; in our case, with respect for human rights.
The graphic that President Trump has been uploading to his social networks about the decrease in migration was prepared by my work team, which has been in constant communication with his.
I instruct the Secretary of Economy to implement the Plan B we have been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico's interests.
Nothing by force; everything by reason and law.
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