The spokesperson for the Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavittissued a warning to drug cartels after the fall of ‘El Mencho’.
It should be remembered that the past Sunday February 22 an operation was carried out in A fight, Jaliscofor the capture of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) but in the end he was dejected by the Mexican Armed Forces.
The White House reported that after counting the damage and deaths, no American fatalities were recorded due to the violent events unleashed after the fall of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.
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Karoline Leavitt assured that they also have no reports of Americans injured or deprived of their liberty, but she issued a warning to drug cartels that try to “touch” United States citizens.
“At this time we are not aware of any reports of injured, kidnapped or dead Americans, and the drug cartels know that they cannot touch a single American or they will face serious consequences as is already happening,” the White House spokeswoman said in an interview with Fox News.
Leavitt added in the interview that the operation in question had the collaboration of US intelligence, in addition, he highlighted the “leadership of the president Trump” to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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He also recalled the actions carried out by the Trump administration to stop the flow of illicit substances in the United States, such as the destruction of boats that allegedly transport and load drugs in the Caribbean to take them to the American Union.
Finally, the White House spokesperson declared that “Washington is coordinating, cooperating and pressuring the Mexican government to do more to end the scourge of deadly drugs entering the southern border of the United States.”
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