I’ll leave the analysis of the importance and content of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Mexico for later. For now, one can conclude that the Mexican side achieved some of what it wanted. They were looking, it seems to me, for a document they could present as an agreement between Mexico and the […]
Amid growing diplomatic tensions between Mexico and the United States over ties between organized crime and political figures, a new warning has reportedly arrived from Washington: the Donald Trump administration is demanding the surrender of eight key figures in the current Mexican regime, accused of alleged ties to drug trafficking. According to journalist Raymundo Riva […]
US President Donald Trump said this Sunday that his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, is “so afraid” of drug cartels that she “can’t think straight,” after confirming that the president denied the US Army entry to help combat these groups. Trump admitted to the press while traveling with him on Air Force One that he recently […]
President Donald Trump said Sunday that his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help curb illegal drug trafficking because she is afraid of the country’s powerful cartels. Sheinbaum confirmed the day before that Trump pressured her during a phone call last month to accept a larger role […]
In his second term in office, President Donald Trump has taken drastic measures to combat the trafficking of fentanyl and other drugs. On the first day of his term in 2025, he signed an executive order to declare drug cartels as terrorist organizations. On January 20, Trump declared that cartels represent a “security threat” to […]
The Republican-majority US Senate is preparing this week to approve, with the support of some Democrats, what would be Donald Trump’s first immigration bill in his second term and which, according to his critics, paves the way for indiscriminate detentions of undocumented immigrants. The law named after Laken Riley, a university student murdered on a […]
Donald Trump assured from Texas that if he governs again, “he will make the job easier” for the authorities of that state to deport and arrest Latino migrants. Former US President Donald Trump assured this Sunday from Texas that if he returns to the White House in 2024 he will “take control” of his country’s […]
