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US names Mexico among 23 principal drug-producing countries while praising its anti-cartel crackdown
Mexico appears on a formal White House list of drug-producing countries, along with 22 others, all but five in the Americas. U.S. President Donald Trump submitted the list to Congress on Monday as part of a document called the Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2026. The Determination, presented annually, identifies those countries that are seen to have geographic, commercia…
The U.S. government demands that Mexico make additional and vigorous efforts over the next year to combat the organized crime networks operating in the territory. The U.S. State Department published the document that points to the main countries of transit or illicit drug production by 2026. U.S. authorities recognized the cooperation of President Claudia Sheinbaum, but felt that efforts should be sustained.
The U.S. President Donald Trump’s government included Mexico in a list of the 23 countries with the largest drug trafficking and production worldwide. In an annual report that the State Department sent to the U.S. federal Congress, the Republican president points out that Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has taken some actions to address this type of crime; however, he said, it must still undertake more strategies against cartels to dismantle clan…
The United States published a new report identifying 23 countries as producers or as major drug trafficking routes. Mexico, Colombia, China, Venezuela, Afghanistan and several Central American countries are among the illicit drug transit routes. In this new list, which is drawn up by the White House and the United States Department of State, it responds to the “Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Production Cou…
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, placed Mexico as one of the 23 countries with the greatest drug trafficking in the world, even though he recognized the cooperation shown by the Mexican government, led by Claudia Sheinbaum in the fight against the production and trafficking of drugs. The president stated the above in the annual report for fiscal year 2026, on “Countries with the greatest transit and production of drugs” that the…
The state government demanded that Mexico’s ‘additional and aggressive efforts’ against drug cartels next year, after including the nation in the list of ‘main transit or illicit drug producing countries for fiscal year 2026.’ In a statement, the State Department notes that in Mexico, which has been on this list for several years, ‘President Claudia Sheinbaum has intensified cooperation to deal with the powerful cartels that poison our two count…
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