The government will seek to rethink its scheme security with the United States and disappear the Merida initiative, Which he considers a unilateral mechanism to deal with the drug trafficking and the organized crime. In addition, it will review and bring order to the 20 nations that have accredited security agents in Mexican territory.
What the Mexican authority is looking for is a mechanism for cooperation with the United States to combat the organized crime, but that it be bilateral.
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What is at stake, diplomatic sources said, is to find a new paradigm of cooperation with this country that is truly a tool of respect mutual, to solve common problems.
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In addition, it wants to establish a new working mechanism with the 20 countries that have in Mexico staff accredited by security tasks. These nations include the United States, France, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Spain, and Israel.
According to sources, the Mexican authorities are seeking to put order in the agents foreigners which are in national territory and which perform functions inherent in security.
It is not a question of prohibiting the presence of these officials, those who carry out investigative tasks in matters of combating organized crime, but of ordering the scheme under which they are conducted.
There are cases, the sources have explained, in which the diplomatic missions they do not report the functions performed by their agents, which is why the Mexican authority seeks to review all records to determine who fit the definition of “foreign agent.”
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For example, the United States has agents in Mexico belonging to different agencies such as the United States to give and the FBI.
According to the page of the embassy of the United States in Mexico, at least the DEA (Administration for the Control of Drugs) has regional offices in City of Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mazatlán, Hermosillo and Merida.
Yesterday, the federal administration published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) the guidelines for regulating the relationship of public servants with foreign agents.
It is established that embassies must report on events that may have a significant impact on country life, which pose a threat to the national security or that relate to alleged criminal conduct of Mexican public servants or ex-officials.
In addition, local servers must report any exchange of information with foreign agents, for which they will have up to three days after making contact.
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The embassies of the countries that have agents in Mexico will have to send a monthly report to the corresponding local authorities on the agreements of bilateral cooperation in matters of security, with the confidentiality which corresponds.
Last November, the Mexican government was surprised by the announcement made by the United States Authority on the arrest of the former Secretary of National Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos.
The former federal official – who held the post in the administration of former President Enrique Peña Nieto – was arrested on arrival at the airport in Los Angeles, California, accused of drug trafficking.
After that, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador charged against foreign agents carrying out tasks in Mexico.
Immediately began to “cook” the reform in the National Security Act, on the accreditation of foreign agents in Mexico.
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The legislation was achieved immediately, but made the then Attorney General of the United States, William Barr, Will declare that it only benefits criminal organizations, in addition to representing a setback in coordination between the two nations in terms of security.
Last December, the US authority decided to withdraw the charges against General Cienfuegos and hand him over to the Mexican authorities, who opened an investigation that ended yesterday in concluding that General Cienfuegos had no links with drug trafficking.
Yesterday, the still US ambassador to Mexico, Christopher Landau, Stated that with the amendments to the National Security Act in Mexico, Washington was quite disappointed, mostly because there was no coordination between the two nations.
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The issue of coordination, he added, is an important situation, especially when it comes to security. “Mexico doesn’t do the United States a favor and the United States doesn’t do Mexico a favor, they are important coordination issues.
“For the Cienfuegos case, the answer should not be to jeopardize collaboration. Obviously, Mexico is a sovereign country and puts its laws in place, but both must have the same goals: to stop organized crime,” he said. Landau.