THE GUARDIAN: Claudia Scheinbaum warns of reciprocal action if Washington designates country’s cartels as terrorist groups
Mexico’s president has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist groups.
The Latin American country, which is under mounting pressure from Donald Trump to curb illegal drug smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking in the other direction.
“If they declare these criminal groups as terrorists, then we’ll have to expand our US lawsuit,” Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said at a daily press conference.
A new charge could include alleged complicity of gunmakers with terror groups, she said.
“The lawyers are looking at it, but they could be accomplices,” Sheinbaum warned.
She said the US justice department itself has recognized that “74% of the weapons” used by criminal groups in Mexico come from north of the border. » | Agence France-Presse in Mexico City | Friday, February 14, 2025
