AMLO and Joe Biden confirm cooperation on migration, economics and combating drug and gun trafficking after video call

After a video call for about an hour, Mexican and US Presidents Andres Manuel López Obrador and Joe Biden respectively reaffirmed their commitment to working together in terms of migration, combating arms and drug trafficking and economic cooperation.

“We talked for about an hour with President Biden. We reaffirm our readiness to continue working together on issues such as migration with a humanistic dimension, drug and arms trafficking and, above all, cooperation for the benefit of peoples. the poorest on our continent. We are good neighbors and friends,” the President of Mexico wrote on his Twitter account.

Meeting of two leaders It is given just a few days before the end of the so-called PTS 42. this Thursday, May 11, a measure that was introduced under the administration of Donald Trump (2017-2021) in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

It was last week when The US government announced that it will open processing centers in Latin America, while Mexico will continue to host migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua, among others, rejected at the border.

The call also came amid controversy over fentanyl trafficking.where politicians in the United States ask that Mexican cartels be declared “terrorist organizations” and President López Obrador called “weaklings and interventionists” those who propose using the US military in Mexico to stop these cartels.

Author: Cesar Reyes
Source: La Opinion

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