Washington.President Joe Biden hopes to focus on the flow of fentanyl into the United States during a meeting in Mexico City with leaders from Mexico and Canada next week, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday.
Biden’s agenda in Mexico City includes discussion of supply chains, fentanyl, climate change, migration and drug cartels, Kirby said.
When asked about specific steps the United States would like Mexico to take to stop the production and smuggling of fentanyl, Kirby said he did not want to get ahead of the summit.
“They’re going to talk a lot about this,” he replied.
The recent arrest of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ovidio Guzmán, “is not an insignificant achievement of the Mexican authorities,” Kirby said.
“It’s not that we haven’t had some success. I mean £20,000 is a lot,” he said, referring to the amount of drugs that US customs authorities have seized since last August.
