AMLO government lost control of Mexico to drug traffickers, warned former US prosecutor

Faced with the wave of violence in entities such as Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and Michoacán caused by drug trafficking cartels, former US Attorney General William Barr said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's government has already lost control of the country.

The official during the terms of Presidents George Bush and Donald Trump, said that the economic power of organized crime has already exceeded the Mexican government's security system. This is what he said this Friday in an interview for Fox News.

In this regard, he expressed concern when he considered that the country's authorities could now “share sovereignty with the cartels and reach a modus vivendi with them.”

Barr recalled that for former Republican President Trump, border security was a priority, but in Joe Biden's current administration, Vice President Kamala Harris is failing in her role.

He gave as an example the episode of the so-called “Culiacanazo”, where Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzman, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and now imprisoned in the United States, was arrested and later released. “He summoned 700 paramilitaries with truck-mounted machine guns to reject law enforcement,” he stressed.

It is worth mentioning that on March 13, gunmen fired on the premises of the consulate in Nuevo Laredo, in Tamaulipas, bordering Laredo, in Texas. The attack came after the arrest of the leader of the Northeast Cartel, Juan Gerardo Treviño “El Huevo”, who was handed over to US authorities on Tuesday.

As a result, Joe Biden's government issued a travel alert to Tamaulipas and authorized the departure of some members of its consulate in that city along with their relatives.