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21 Republican attorneys general call for Mexican cartels to be treated as terrorists in the US.

2023-02-09T22:38:54.232Z


Attorneys general from 21 Republican-ruled US states have called on President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to declare the Mexican cartels “foreign terrorist organizations”.


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(CNN Spanish) --

Attorneys General of 21 Republican-ruled US states have asked President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to declare the Mexican drug cartels "foreign terrorist organizations" (FTOs). drugs to apply more stringent federal and state laws.

The letter written by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and endorsed by the signature of 20 other attorneys general justifies the petition for the "extreme violence" with which they say, Mexican criminal organizations act and the introduction to the United States, "without precedent”, of the synthetic drug known as fentanyl.

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“This violence, which necessarily involves the use of firearms and explosives to kill security forces, clearly constitutes terrorist activity,” the letter says.

The letter warns that, during the last decade, the Mexican drug cartels have developed well-organized armed forces to protect "their reprehensible trade" from rivals and the Mexican government, while diversifying their illicit businesses.

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Analyst and security expert Samuel González says that classifying the Mexican cartels as terrorist groups would also mean increasing the intensity with which they will be persecuted in the United States.

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"The laws against drug trafficking may seem harsh, but the laws against terrorism increase in intensity, it is allowed to use many more tools in their fights, such as the issue of the Patriot Act and consequently when the government uses these strategies and those elements, we have a greater capacity of the force of application of the law”, explained the analyst.

He cited as an example the use of drones and remote-controlled devices to locate and attack, although he specified that these types of tools can violate national sovereignty and therefore the United States government must be careful.

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The letter sent by Miyares is also signed by the state prosecutors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee , Texas, Utah and Virginia.

CNN asked the White House for a reaction to the request from the 21 attorneys general, but has not received a response so far.

Then-President Donald Trump revealed in 2019 that his government was considering declaring the Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, but that decision never came to fruition.

In response to this possibility, the Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard said that "Mexico will never admit any action that means a violation of its national sovereignty."

Source: cnnespanol

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