President Joe Biden is meeting with his North American counterparts for the second time of his administration, this time for two days in Mexico City.
disclosing that it seized enough illicit, fentanyl-laced pills last year to kill every single American.
"On the topic of security, the U.S. and Mexico need to continue implementing the Bicentennial Framework, the successor agreement to the Merida Initiative, which institutionalized security cooperation since 2007," Berg wrote in a note."With Republicans taking over the House of Representatives and set to launch investigations into deadly fentanyl trafficking from Mexico, the Biden administration likely feels pressure to show some progress in security cooperation.
But Berg pointed to trade opportunities for the neighbors as well as the U.S. looks to decouple its economy from's by"nearshoring" or"friendshoring" supply chains through the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science Act.
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