Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum asks Trump to ‘establish a working group with our best public health and security teams.’
She called the White House’s accusations that her government was working in alliance with drug trafficking cartels “slander.”
“Problems are not resolved by imposing tariffs, but by talking and dialoguing, as we did in recent weeks with your State Department to address the phenomenon of migration; in our case, with respect for human rights,” she said.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump imposed tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China via the International Emergency Economic Powers Act “because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our citizens, including fentanyl.”
Sheinbaum blamed the U.S. government for failing to end illegal sales of fentanyl on its streets. Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45, according to U.S. government data.
Sheinbaum told Washington to end the black market for the drug and “take care of their young people.”
“If the United States 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 main cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population,” the post read.
