The goal of the american republicans to declare to the posters of the drug trafficking As terrorist groups, it took another step in that direction this Wednesday with the presentation of a bill that advocates for that designation and for authorizing the Army’s actions.
In the sights of legislators Lindsey Graham and John Neeley KennedyAccording to what they said at a press conference, the cartels from Sinaloa, the one from Jalisco are currently Nueva Generación, the one from the Gulf, Los Zetas, the one from the Northeast, the one from Juárez, the one from Tijuana, that of the Beltrán-Leyva and La Familia Michoacana.
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“They have terrified Americans for decades. We are going to destroy your business model and lifestyle because our national security depends on taking decisive action.” Graham said.
His bill will be introduced “within a few days” and promotes declaring these cartels as foreign terrorist organization (FTO) to be able to activate more mechanisms against them. The senators also seek to authorize the US Army to intervene against these organizations “wherever they are.”
“Not to invade Mexico or shoot down Mexican aircraft, but to destroy their laboratories” and their networks, Graham said. “We hope to do it in collaboration with the countries where they are, but if we have to do it on our own, we will do it alone,” he warned the press.
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The turning point that led them to accelerate action is the fentanyl boom. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced last December that it had seized 379 million potentially fatal doses of fentanyl in 2022, “enough to kill all US citizens.”
Graham accused Mexico of “narcoterrorist state” and sent a message to the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador: “Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction that is coming from your country. You are allowing havens for these groups to operate with impunity. We ask you to help us“.
Mexico, however, sees the designation sought as a violation of its sovereignty. because it would authorize the US Army to combat these organizations. The Mexican cartels are already sanctioned by the United States, but the Administration of Democrat Joe Biden does not rule out for now the possibility of going further and declaring them terrorist organizations.
“We will always do what is most effective and what is in our power to hold these groups accountable,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday, while Attorney General Merrick Garland warned that care must be taken bilateral relations, but he is not opposed to that designation either.
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