Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum fiercely rejected US accusations of an alliance with drug cartels and vowed to retaliate against Donald Trump's planned tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods. Sheinbaum ordered her economy minister to implement countermeasures, including tariffs, calling Trump's move a violation of trade agreements. Sheinbaum also accused the US of ignoring its own role in the drug trade, pointing to the sale of weapons to criminal groups and the lack of action against narcotics sales and money laundering in US cities.
: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum angrily rejected an accusation by the United States Saturday that her government has an alliance with drug cartels , and vowed to retaliate against Donald Trump ’s sweeping tariffs.
Ebrard called Trump’s tariffs a “flagrant violation” of the United States’ free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. “If there is such an alliance anywhere, it is in the US gun shops that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups,“ she added. “It’s really unprecedented that the US government has now formally linked the Mexican government to drug trafficking in an official document,“ he told AFP.Mexican recession possible
“Since exports to the US account for around 20 percent of their GDP, today’s tariffs could plunge both the Canadian and Mexican economies into recession later this year,“ the Capital Economics consultancy firm wrote in a note to clients.
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