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'No intervention:' Mexico president reacts to Trump's cartel terrorism plan
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS NOVEMBER 27, 2019 / 10:00 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
'No intervention:' Mexico president reacts to Trump's cartel terrorism plan
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday rejected “interventionism” after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was working to designate the Latin American country’s drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
Lopez Obrador said Mexico would take up the issue after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and that he had asked his foreign minister to lead talks.
“Cooperation, yes, intervention, no” Lopez Obrador said in a morning news conference when asked about Trump’s comments.
Cartels “will be” designated, Trump said in an interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, broadcast on Tuesday, adding he had been working for 90 days on the process.
A growing chorus of conservative voices in the United States has called for Mexican cartels to be classified as terrorist groups after the killing of nine Americans with dual Mexican nationality in Mexico earlier this month.
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'No intervention:' Mexico president reacts to Trump's cartel terrorism plan
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday rejected “interventionism” after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was working to designate the Latin American country’s drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
Lopez Obrador said Mexico would take up the issue after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and that he had asked his foreign minister to lead talks.
“Cooperation, yes, intervention, no” Lopez Obrador said in a morning news conference when asked about Trump’s comments.
Cartels “will be” designated, Trump said in an interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, broadcast on Tuesday, adding he had been working for 90 days on the process.
A growing chorus of conservative voices in the United States has called for Mexican cartels to be classified as terrorist groups after the killing of nine Americans with dual Mexican nationality in Mexico earlier this month.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-cartels/no-intervention-mexico-president-reacts-to-trumps-cartel-terrorism-plan-idUSKBN1Y11U2
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