Mexico is Sending 23 Agents to United States to Help Prevent Arms Trafficking

[Judi Lynn]

By Socalj 2/04/2022 11:00:00 AM
"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE), reported in the plenary session of the Senators of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) on the progress in the requests of the administration headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for which the Mexican Foreign Ministry is working in coordination and the Security Cabinet.

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Since mid-October of last year, it was reported that Mexico was requesting the intervention of at least a dozen officials in US territory in exchange for granting visas to the same number of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents. Two months later, President López Obrador reported that they had already been authorized, but no progress was reported on his government's request.

According to the foreign minister, what he described as a bitter disagreement after the arrest in Los Angeles of the former head of the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, has already been overcome. Now, the governments of Joe Biden and López Obrador relaunched the binational security agreement with the Bicentennial Understanding, as reported by Borderland Beat.

With the then President of the United States, Donald Trump, the DEA led investigations against the general and he was secured in October 2020, but there were negotiations with the SRE that allowed him to be returned from New York to Mexico to be prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office. República, an instance that finally ruled out links with the drug trafficker.

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http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2022/02/mexico-is-sending-23-agents-to-united.html

[inganmistral]

1. I saw the cartels were using anti vehicles mines now.