The US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, called on Mexican authorities to “work as partners” and “family” to combat synthetic drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl.
“We will be two nations with a complicated history, a border of over 3 thousand kilometers, but the future belongs to a family. Mexican families, American families, we are a family and deserve security,” she said at the International Conference on Synthetic Drugs, which will bring together authorities and specialists in the field for three days in Mexico City.
Salazar indicated that he will meet with the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to talk about how to strengthen “this strong relationship that we have in the integration of the US, Mexico and Canada.”
He celebrated that the trade relationship between the US and Mexico “is the largest in history” and that today both countries are “the number one sub-trading partners in the world,” which “has left China far behind in other places.” ”.
The American diplomat added that they will continue to seek to strengthen teamwork in the fight against drug trafficking, as well as weapons, human trafficking, and even “the crime that we see in the migrant corridor.”
The deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Counternarcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the United States Embassy, Christopher Landberg, warned that there is “a global crisis of illicit synthetic drugs.”
I have noted that in the last year more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States, of which more than 70,000 involved synthetic opioids; Furthermore, he has stressed that fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans between 18 and 45 years old.
Therefore, he indicated that “the US government invests heavily to reduce demand and improve treatment” within its territory, although “it is not the only country at risk.” Mexico (EFE)
April 26, 2024
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