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Answering a Republican Senator’s Question Lindsey Graham US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, about control over drug cartels in some parts of Mexico, Blinken replied that “fair to

US may designate Mexican cartels as terrorists: Blinken

Answering a Republican Senator’s Question Lindsey Graham US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, about control over drug cartels in some parts of Mexico, Blinken replied that “fair to say yes”, so if they could consider them terrorists.

During a speech to lawmakers in the U.S. Congress, Graham asked Blinken if he thought fentanyl from Mexico was killing Americans, to which the secretary of state replied that “yes, it is, and also killing mexicans“.

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Senator Lindsey Graham is one of the main advocates for Mexican cartels to be considered terrorists in the context of the fentanyl overdose crisis in the United States. So he asked Blinken about the effectiveness of the current anti-drug policy.

“Do you think our policy on drug cartels and fentanyl coming from Mexico is working?” Graham asked.

“They need to do more, and one way to do more, for example, one way to do that is to use our technology at the border to detect and intercept fentanyl,” Secretary of State Blinken replied.

Faced with this response, Republican Senator Graham questioned the labeling of Mexican drug cartels as terrorists in order to get to the bottom of the problem and be able to fight them with United States military. When asked, Blinken replied:if we consider the option“.

Blinken mentioned that they were working with Mexico and that it was the Mexicans themselves who suffered most from the insecurity caused by the drug crisis. He also mentioned that although there are more overdose deaths in the United States today than in Mexico, this a growing problem in Mexico it will have consequences.

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Graham reiterated that what is required is “not a call from Mexico, but actual action on their part, and that they are making a plan on the spot.”Colombian style“…they kill more Americans than we lost in the Vietnam War in one year. Stop“.

The discussion about labeling Mexican drug cartels as terrorists has been going on for weeks, after it was announced that drugs kill 100,000 Americans year.

On February 8, 21 state attorneys general asked President Joe Biden to use his authority to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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