2024-04-30 00:18:43
Hours after the morning of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where he assured that General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) would report on whether Mexico is a “champion” in fentanyl, as the director of the AIC said, the agency denied the saying.
“Master Gallo publicly apologizes, explaining that the purpose, in which he obviously should not have used that word, was to highlight the long legal fight that our country has had to carry out to combat the production, transfer and export of synthetic drugs. “, pointed out the FGR it’s a statement.
This Wednesday, Felipe de Jesús Gallodirector of the Criminal Investigation Agency, asserted before US officials that Mexico is the “champion” from the production of synthetic drugs, including fentanyl.
During the Multilateral Conference on Synthetic Drugs To address the problem of trafficking of these drugs and that keeps alerts active in both countries, the official maintained that “Mexico has been the champion of the production of methamphetamine, and now fentanyl.”
“I can’t say if it was an exaggeration nor can I say it’s not true. “We’d better wait to see what his sources are, why he comes to that conclusion,” was what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded yesterday regarding the statements of the director of the AIC.
Previously, the President rejected the statements of the official of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and one of the closest collaborators of the prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero, and described them as “alarmist.”
“Maybe today or tomorrow, the Prosecutor’s Office Report this and be free! “We have no concern if what they have reported is real,” he assured, since on several occasions in the past, the president maintained that Mexico was not a fentanyl producer.
Furthermore, he shared that the Prosecutor’s Office in conjunction with the Marina They maintain an operation on the chemical precursors of the synthetic drug and that methamphetamine laboratories have been “destroyed like never before.”
About fentanyl, your administration It has only reported the securing of 25 manufacturing centers throughout the country.
On March 19, in an interview with the journalist Sharyn Alfonsi, Host of the US CBS program 60 Minutes, the Mexican president acknowledged that the drug is manufactured in Mexico.
“Fentanyl is produced in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia.”
In addition to this, President López Obrador toughened his criticism of the State Department’s report on the human rights situation in Mexico: “They see the speck in another’s eye, but not the beam in their own.”
Furthermore, the President accused that the document “violates international law”, to which the US agency responded – hours later – through its spokesperson Vedant Patel, that it is not and that it is based on information from sources they consider reliable.
“You need to be brave so that after approving that policy, they still want to act as judges in matters of human rights. That is very serious,” López Obrador stated in this regard.
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2024-04-30 00:18:43