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With just weeks to go before the new istration of Donald Trump begins, on Sunday, December 22, he announced that he would declare Mexico's drug cartels as terrorists, as he promised during his presidential campaign.
It will be on January 20, 2025, when Trump becomes president of the United States again and as part of a preview of what he might do in office, he indicated that from that day on, criminal groups would be declared as terrorist organizations.
This is what Donald Trump said about organized crime
This was announced by the tycoon during a forum of the ultra-conservative organization Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also mentioned international gangs.
All foreign gang will be expelled and I will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. I will do it immediately.
The Republican also accused several countries of sending their "drug dealers" and declared that "this criminal network that operates on American soil will be dismantled, deported and destroyed."
While he also referred to Claudia Sheinbaum: "I was very tough on Mexico. I spoke to the new president, a woman who was lovely and wonderful, President Sheinbaum, a wonderful woman, but I said to her: 'You can't do this to our country'".
Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Donald Trump after statements about criminal groups as terrorists
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to the politician's remarks and assured that they will not accept "interference", so they are working with the neighboring country that "we will never subordinate ourselves".
"Drugs are consumed there, mainly, from there come the weapons, and here we put the lives, that is not. We collaborate, coordinate, work together, but we are never going to subordinate ourselves. Mexico is a free, sovereign, independent country. And we do not accept interference in our country."