The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, acknowledged on Tuesday that there are “crime groups” that produce drugs in the country, although he blamed the United States because its consumption is “increasingly” higher.

“The causes have to be addressed (in the United States) and this will also help us a lot because here there are crime groups that are dedicated to the production of drugs,” he said in the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the National Guard (GN), a body that he conceived in 2019.

However, he warned that “as long as there is consumption as happens, and more and more, in the United States, more problems” occur in Mexico to “confront organized crime” that traffics in drugs.

This is one of the first times that the president, who will replace the presidency of Claudia Sheinbaum on October 1, recognizes the production of narcotics by Mexican cartels.

In fact, at the end of March he stated that there is “very little fentanyl” made in Mexico, after he denied for years the information of the United States Anti-Drug Agency (DEA), which maintains that this narcotic is produced in the country with chemical precursors from Asia.

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“We must convince, because we are brothers and good neighbors, Americans so that they address the causes that cause the high consumption of drugs they have,” he recommended to the agents of the GN and a good part of his presidential Cabinet.

He stressed that this situation leads to “very unfortunate” circumstances in the United States, such as the death of young people from overdose, especially due to the consumption of the “terrible drug of fentanyl.”

“What we have to try is that young people do not come out of the families so young, that this custom is revised,” López Obrador suggested.

So he was committed to “helping in any way possible” from Mexico.

On the other hand, the current president described how his administration is “confronting the scourge of violence” with measures such as the daily celebration of the Security Cabinet or the creation of the GN, which López Obrador wants to integrate into the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena).

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One of its controversial constitutional reforms announced in February was already attempted in September 2022 with a legal change to include the GN in the Sedena and that, subsequently, was invalidated by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).

During the creation of the Guard, it was established that the body of 130,000 agents should be in charge of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).

“It is progressing, not as we would like, but we must take into account that it is a very aggravated evil because they left it for a long time without attention,” he acknowledged.

He opined that, since his entry into the National Palace, the causes that originate violence are being “advered” through different policies, such as “guaranteeing” universal access to health and “that there is social security.”

Also, López Obrador demanded to “take care” that drug use does not grow within Mexico, now “very focused” in some areas, and appealed to the original cultures, the “protective shield” of society, to carry it out.

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“Mexicans, I say this with all respect, are not vicious or prone to drugs,” he said.