“In the context of the Bicentennial Understanding, today Thursday, April 13, a meeting was held led by the Secretary of Security (…) with the prosecutor Merrick Garland. The meeting is part of the ongoing high-level dialogue that exists between both parties to eradicate fentanyl and arms trafficking (…) There is a willingness to cooperate within the framework of respect for both sovereignties.”
Words more, words less, this paragraph will be typed by the Social Communication area of the SRE or the Secretary of Security (Who is leading the procession? Rosa Isela Rodríguez or Marcelo Ebrard?) after the meeting between the security teams of the governments of the United States and Mexico.
Press releases are archaeological pieces designed at the beginning of the last century whose objective is to get out of trouble. The language is linked to optimism and opens up a very hopeful panorama of the future. Bad news is never acknowledged.
Synchronizing the realities of the press conferences of the president of Mexico with those of Washington, on the bilateral relationship, should not be easy.
Today’s meeting is perhaps the most absurd and, at the same time, delicate, in the four and a half years of AMLO’s government. The environment is very complex because cries of attack, invasion and fire against the drug cartels can be heard from the Republican audience.
On the Mexican side, the decisions without diplomacy that President López Obrador has made have caused him to stumble. First, by responding to Senators Dan Crenshaw and Mike Waltz on their proposal to label drug cartels terrorists. Second: pointing to China as guilty of bringing chemicals to Mexico to cook fentanyl. From Beijing, a second-level official responds in an interview.
The meeting will be absurd because while President AMLO sends half a cabinet (the secretaries of Foreign Affairs, Security, Defense, Navy and Health; the Attorney General; the director of Cofepris; the ambassador to the United States; the Head of Unit for North America of the SRE and the general who directs the Cisen), the government of President Biden (according to the statement of the SRE) will send the attorney general, secretary of the Navy, National Security adviser, the director of the Office of Political National for Drug Control and the ambassador in Mexico.
Antony Blinken will travel from Dublin to Vietnam and Japan in the next few hours. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is trying to manage the crisis of intelligence documents leaked on social media.
In Mexico, the absurd is broadcast on triple A schedule. In the US they will give little importance to the meeting.
It is the cost of the little synchrony of Washington with the unreality of the mornings.
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