Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that she had “a good conversation” on Monday morning with American president Donald Trump, “with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty”.
In a post On X, Sheinbaum said that the two had reached “a series of agreements” during their conversation, two days after the Mexican president ordered reprisal prices in response to the American decision to slap the samples of 25 % on all goods from Mexico while a trade war broke between the two neighbors.
“1. Mexico will immediately strengthen the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent Mexico drug trafficking in the United States, especially fentanyl, “said Sheinbaum, explaining agreements.
“2. The United States has undertaken to work to prevent the traffic of high power weapons in Mexico. 3. Our teams will start working on two fronts today: security and trade, “she continued.
Sheinbaum also said that the fourth agreement is that the United States “does not stop the prices in a month.”
Trump confirmed on the real company that they had had a “very friendly conversation” and that they will immediately take a break from the prices provided for a period of one month “.
“We also agreed to take a break immediately for the prices provided for a period of one month during which we will have negotiations led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, and the secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and high -level representatives of Mexico. I can’t wait to participate in these negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, while we are trying to conclude an “agreement” between our two countries “, he wrote.
Sunday, Sheinbaum said that reason should prevail one day after his government and the United States announced prices against each other, raising her fist in the air because she said she was not lacking in the courage of answer.
Trump said on Sunday that the radical prices he imposed in Mexico, Canada and China could cause “some pain” for the Americans, because Wall Street and the biggest American trade partners have pointed out that the trade war would not last long.
On Sunday, in a speech outside the Mexican capital, Sheinbaum raised his fist in the air and said that the commercial penalties ordered for the first time by Trump would hit his own people with higher prices.
She said that her government preferred dialogue rather than confrontation with her best trading partner in the North.
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In a long declaration On X, Sheinbaum approached Trump’s statement that prices against Mexico were an answer to illegal immigration and “alliance” between drug trafficking organizations and the government of Mexico.
“We categorically reject the slander claim of the White House according to which the government of Mexico has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any attempt to intervene in our territory,” wrote Sheinbaum on X. “If there is some Part that such an alliance actually exists, it is in the Firearms factories of the United States which sell weapons of great power to these criminal groups. »»
Sheinbaum said the Mexican government “seized more than 40 tonnes of drugs in four months”, including “20 million doses of fentanyl” and “arrested more than ten thousand people related to these groups”.
“If the American government and its agencies wish to solve the serious problem of fentanyl consumption in their country, they could, for example, fight the sale of narcotics in the streets of their big cities – which they do not do – as well as The money The laundering generated by this illegal activity, which has caused significant damage to their population, “she added.
Claudia Sheinbaum speaks for an information conference on the issue of immigration after Donald Trump took office as 47th President of the United States, a briefing was held at the National Palace. January 22, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Sheinbaum also suggested that the United States could “launch a massive campaign to prevent drug use and protect their youth” as Mexico has done.
“The consumption and distribution of drugs occur in their own country, and it is a public health problem that they have not resolved. In addition, the epidemic of synthetic opioids in the United States comes from the blind prescription of these drugs, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as demonstrated by the legal case against a pharmaceutical enterprise, ” writes Sheinbaum.
“Mexico is not looking for confrontation. We believe in collaboration between neighboring countries. Mexico does not want fentanyl to reach the United States – or everywhere else. Consequently, if the United States really wants to fight against criminal groups that drug trafficking and fuel violence, we must work together completely, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, of Collaboration and, above all, respect for sovereign – which is not negotiable. Coordination, yes; Subordination, no. “”
Sheinbaum offered Trump that they are establishing a working group with their best safety and public health teams.
“The prices will not solve these problems. Instead, we have to speak and negotiate, just as we have done in recent weeks with the US State Department to combat migration, always respecting human rights on our side ”, a- she said.
“I ask the Secretary of Economy to implement plan B, which we have prepared, in particular tariff and non-tariff measures to defend the interests of Mexico,” she wrote, without specifying what property Americans that his government will target.
“Nothing by force; All by reason and law, ”she concluded her post.
Sunday, the governors of the 31 states of Mexico and Mexico supported Sheinbaum in a joint declaration.
“We vigorously condemn the accusations that suggest that there is a link between our government and the Cartels of Narco trafficking,” he said. “These statements are not only baseless, they also ignore the major and verifiable efforts that Mexico has made to combat organized crime,” the statement said.
The Mexican Minister of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, said on x that Trump hurts.
“Accusing the Mexican government of being an ally of Narco [traffickers] is – apart from an insult to our country – a pretext to distract American public opinion from the enormous error of imposing disruptive prices in Mexico and North American companies that operate here. Pulling yourself in your foot, ”wrote Ebrard.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sheinbaum spoke by phone on Saturday after Trump administration imposed the new prices – 25% on the goods of Canada and Mexico, with a rate of 10% for Canadian oil and 10% on imports from China.
The Trudeau office said in a statement that Canada and Mexico had agreed to “improve strong bilateral relations” between their countries. Canadian officials have had an extended dialogue with their Mexican counterparts, but a senior Canadian official said that he would not go so far as to say that the pricing responses were coordinated.
“It’s now time to choose products made here in Canada”, ” Trudeau posted Sunday On X. “Check the labels. Let’s do our part. Wherever we can, choose Canada. »»
Trump makes a major political bet that his actions will not considerably act inflation, will cause financial replicas that could destabilize the global economy or cause a reaction from voters.
With prices, Trump honors promises that are at the heart of his philosophy of economic and national security. The announcement showed its severity on the issue, as some Trump allies had expressed the threat of more import taxes as simple negotiation tactics.
Trump declared that the government should increase more of its income from prices, as it did before income tax was part of the American Constitution in 1913. He claims, despite the economic evidence of the contrary, that The United States was at its richest in the 1890s under the president of the time, William McKinley.
–With Reuters and Associated Press files
