Mexican Officials to Hold Talks in U.S. On Fentanyl Smuggling
Excerpt:
Members of Mexico’s security cabinet will be in the United States this week to meet with U.S. officials about the trafficking of synthetic opioid fentanyl, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.
The meeting’s agenda will include other topics, including arms trafficking, the president said, without providing details on which U.S. officials would participate.
Some U.S. lawmakers have been calling on the Biden administration to take a harder line and ratchet up pressure on Mexico to crack down on the fentanyl trafficking......
.....U.S. officials say almost all fentanyl on U.S. streets is mass produced by powerful crime groups on Mexican soil, a claim Lopez Obrador denies.
China last week responded to a late-March letter from Lopez Obrador asking for help on shipments of fentanyl, saying there is no illegal trafficking of the opioid between China and Mexico.
The letter and China’s response did not mention supplies of the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl.
.....”In Mexico fentanyl is not produced, the raw material for fentanyl is not produced. If China’s government says they do not produce it either, then it is interesting. Who is producing it?,” Lopez Obrador said during a regular news conference Monday.
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China and Mexico need some oil and vinegar on their word salads./s FJB is oblivious to it all.
If we had the rightful leader in DC this nonsensical word salad from south of the border would not be happening.
Obamapalooza 2.0 update: U.S. and Cuba to hold ‘migration talks’ this week
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1681163669_46389.html
Translated excerpt, with translators ‘comments’:
From our Bureau of Thinly Disguised Preludes to Total Capitulation Over Weaponized Migration
Talks between Castro, Inc. and Jar-Jar Biden’s administration are about to resume this week in Washington D.C. The meetings are ostensibly about migration issues, but chances are that the real subject is the renewal of the so-called “thaw” initiated by Barack Obama back in 2016.
So, get ready for Obamapalooza 2.0, and for a new set of unilateral concessions to Castro, Inc.
Sending over a quarter of a million Cubans to the U.S. in 2022 seems to be paying off for Castro, Inc. Never underestimate the power of weaponized migration.
The US and Cuban governments will hold another round of migration talks on Wednesday, officials in Washington said, as President Joe Biden’s administration prepares for the end of Covid-era border restrictions that have prevented Cubans from crossing. to the United States from Mexico in recent months.
The high-level meeting in Washington will follow the one held in Havana in November and comes a year after the Biden Administration resumed such contacts, after a long hiatus under former President Donald Trump, Reuters reported.
This week’s meeting “represents a continuation of our longstanding engagement with Cuba on migration issues as neighboring states and is limited to the issue of migration,” a US State Department official was quoted as saying on Monday by Reuters.
“Ensuring safe, orderly, humane, and regular migration between Cuba and the United States remains a primary interest of the United States, consistent with our interest in fostering family reunification and promoting greater respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. “said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.