President Claudia Sheinbaum declared on Saturday that Mexico would impose tariffs and other measures of its own in response to the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
According to Sheinbaum, she instructed her economic minister “to implement Plan B that we have been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico’s interests.”
Washington’s claim that her government had a “intolerable alliance” with drug trafficking organizations was also retaliated against by her.
“We categorically reject the slander made by the White House against the Mexican government about alliances with criminal organizations,” Sheinbaum wrote on social media platform X.
“If there is such an alliance anywhere, it is in the US gun shops that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups,” she added.
“If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they can combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they don’t do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population,” Sheinbaum added.
