President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was convinced in an interview with the American program ’60 Minutes’, broadcast this Sunday, that former President Donald Trump will not continue the construction of a wall on the southern border, returning to the White House , and that the wall “does not work” to resolve the current immigration chaos.
“The wall doesn’t work!” exclaimed the president, who believes that Trump would not build it “because he needs Mexico.” “We understood each other very well. We signed a trade agreement that has been favorable for both peoples. He knows it. And so does President Biden,” he said in the interview with ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, recorded last Friday in Ciudad from Mexico.
For López Obrador, the solution to the migration crisis on the southern border will come when Washington commits to sending 20 billion dollars a year to the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and legalizes millions of irregular Mexican immigrants who respect the law located in the United States, among other conditions.
“Or the flow of migrants will continue,” López Obrador said on the popular American news program on the CBS network.
Likewise, he acknowledged for the first time in the five years of his government that fentanyl is produced in Mexico.
In an interview with journalist Sharyn Alfonsi, from the US CBS program 60 Minutes, the Chief Executive stated that what should be done with criminals is to apply the law “because you cannot negotiate with criminals.”
“No, no, no, no, no. What needs to be done with criminals is to apply the law, but I am not going to establish contact, communication with a criminal,” responded the President.
“Are you saying that you don’t have to approach them or communicate with them?” the journalist insisted. “No, no, no, no, no, because you can’t negotiate with criminals,” she responded.
Alfonsi continued: “The head of the DEA [agencia antidrogas de Estados Unidos] says that cartels are mass producing fentanyl and the US State Department has said that most of it comes from Mexico, are they wrong?”
“Yes. Or rather, they don’t have all the information because fentanyl is also produced in the United States,” he answered.
“The State Department says that most of it comes from Mexico,” the interviewer reiterated to López Obrador.
“Fentanyl is produced in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia. Do you know why we don’t have the drug consumption that we have in the United States? Because we have customs, traditions and we don’t have the problem of disintegration of the family,” he said.
“But in Mexico there is drug consumption,” the American reporter pointed out. “But very little,” replied the President.
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2024-04-15 02:52:31
