As President Biden prepares to meet with his Mexican counterpart and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, analysts discuss the most important issues facing the three nations.
, the son of drug cartel leader"El Chapo" who is accused of being responsible for massive fentanyl trafficking into the United States, was captured and arrested. AMLO has been demanding that the U.S. government stem the flow of guns and weapons smuggled into Mexico and it is expected that he will continue to do so.
The former foreign minister noted,"The capture of drug lords is not an effective strategy, first because it causes more violence when the drug lords, who were not captured, dispute the place from which they were captured. Secondly, because the big cartels are simply replaced or fragmented, in which case violence spreads."
President Joe Biden speaks with a member of the U.S. Border Patrol as they walk along the border fence in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023."Mexico wants to do at least the bare minimum in terms of counter-drug efforts," Mike Vigil told The Associated Press in an interview. Vigil was the DEA’s former chief of international operations who spent 13 years of his career in Mexico.
Experts say that as long as López Obrador agrees to help Biden contain the border problem, a priority for his administration, the U.S. president will not press too much on other issues.said:"Both President Biden and I are going to be fairly clear with President López Obrador that this needs to be understood as a way to help Mexico develop, a way to continue to draw in investments from companies in Canada and the United States.
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