Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed that fentanyl is a U.S. problem on Thursday and rejected calls for U.S. military action against Mexican drug cartels.
Fox News Bill Melugin has more on the Mexican national held in kidnapping and murder of Americans last week in Matamoros, Mexico on 'Special Report.'just south of the border in Matamoros, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that calls for U.S. military action against drug trafficking organizations are"irresponsible."
The rebuke comes after multiple Republican lawmakers called for the U.S. military to take direct action against the cartels. "This is a problem of mass poisoning of the citizens of the United States and the cartels are directly responsible," Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, who introduced a bill earlier this year to authorize military force against the cartels, said in a message to López Obrador on Wednesday. protect the cartelsMexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, June 20, 2022.
López Obrador called the suggestion"an offense to the people of Mexico" at a press conference on Thursday, according to Reuters. "We are not going to permit any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less that a government's armed forces intervene," López Obrador said.
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