Mexican president blasts US for harboring drug cartels

<p>Claudia Sheinbaum gives riposte to Trump’s accusation of ‘intolerable alliance’ between Mexican government and gangs</p><p>Mexico’s president has accused the US of harboring drug cartels and American citizens of working with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/organised-crime">organized crime</a> groups in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</a>, in a riposte to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s allegation of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/02/mexico-responds-angrily-to-trumps-claim-its-government-has-links-to-cartels">an “intolerable alliance” between traffickers and her government</a>.</p><p>“There is also organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</a> with these illegal activities,” Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference on Thursday. “Otherwise who would distribute fentanyl in the cities of the United States?”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/13/claudia-sheinbaum-us-drug-cartel">Continue reading...</a>