Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized Trump’s decision to classify fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” and defended its medical use. “Fentanyl is also consumed legally, it’s used as an anesthetic. So what implications does it have for legal and non-legal use when it’s determined to be a weapon of destruction?” he said during his morning press conference from the National Palace. Furthermore, the president once again insisted on her drug use prevention strategy, which, far from being punitive, attacks the social causes of substance use.
The President of the United States has further toughened his speech against fentanyl, which he designates as the cause of the death of at least 200,000 people each year, more than “any bomb”. For this reason, he signed an executive order that unlocks “all the tools to fight the cartels and foreign networks responsible for flooding communities with this deadly substance,” according to a White House press release. Faced with the growing interventionist threat, Sheinbaum reiterated that Mexico would not accept any foreign operations on its territory to fight drug trafficking.
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