The president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum argued that its lineup proposed reforms for the country’s constitution to protect its sovereignty on the sidelines of the designation of six Mexican groups of organized crime as terrorist organizations from the United States.

The US Foreign Ministry upgraded on Thursday the designation of the cartels, including Sinaloa of Mexico and Jalisco Nueva Generación, which are jointly dominated by the production and introduction of fentanyl in the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Service.

It is noted that fentanyl is an opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States each year – more than car accidents, shots or suicides – Washington Post said in a 2022 survey. Mexican cartels and smuggled into formal border crossings to the United States.

“This cannot be the reason for the US invasion of our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said at a press conference yesterday, adding that Mexico will work to combat organized crime, but will not accept “submission”.

The designation of “foreign terrorist organizations” allows the State Department to impose specific sanctions and expand the ability of the US government to prosecute people who provide support to these groups by collecting “military action information”, according to a Wilson Center analysis.

The term cartel has been used many times by US legislators, but Mexico has strongly opposed fears that her acceptance of her that she could carry US military intervention and negatively affect Mexico’s worldwide reputation, analysts say.

Constitutional changes are more common in Mexico than in the United States – Sheinbaum had launched at least 12 constitutional reforms by January 30, after its swearing -in on October 1st – and is particularly simple as the left -wing Morena party and its allies hold majorities in both bodies of the National Congress and control its three -quarters State.

The first reform proposed by Sheinbaum on Thursday stipulates that Mexico will not accept any “act coming from abroad and be harmful to the integrity, independence and sovereignty of the nation”, including coups, electoral interventions and unauthorized interventions Foreign intervention in research and persecution.

“Mexico is in favor of cooperation and coordination, but it will never submit and will not accept interventions and much more invasion on its interior,” Sheinbaum said.

The second reform aims to ensure that every national or alien involved in illegal arms trafficking, and any alien who violates Mexico’s sovereignty will be punished with immediate detention and face the maximum penalties.

All this, as it has been ascertain, 74% of the weapons seized in Mexico come from the United States.

“There is also an organized crime in the United States and there are Americans who come to Mexico to do these illegal activities,” Sheinbaum also said during a press conference last week.

President Donald Trump signed the executive decree in January to commence the process of designating some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, which came into force on Thursday.

According to this, cartels have carried out a “violence and terror campaign” throughout the western hemisphere and “filled the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals and wicked gangs”.