Sheinbaum said that US would enactment to halt the trafficking of high-powered firearms to Mexico. (AP photo)
US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that their planned tariffs would beryllium enactment connected clasp for a month to let clip for further negotiations, reported AP. This follows a telephone betwixt Trump and Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum was the archetypal to disclose the delay. “We had a bully speech with President Trump with large respect for our narration and sovereignty,” she wrote connected X. She confirmed that Mexico would deploy 10,000 National Guard troops to its bluish borderline to “prevent cause trafficking from Mexico to the United States.”
Sheinbaum added that, successful return, the US would enactment to halt the trafficking of high-powered firearms to Mexico, a occupation that has agelong bolstered organised transgression successful the country.
Before the tariffs were delayed, Sheinbaum had ordered retaliatory measures, including tariffs connected US goods, according to Reuters. She confirmed that her authorities would proceed to support Mexico’s interests. “I’ve instructed my system curate to instrumentality the program B we’ve been moving on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures successful defence of Mexico’s interests,” Sheinbaum posted connected X, without specifying which US goods would beryllium targeted.
Sheinbaum besides rejected the White House’s assertion that the Mexican authorities has ties to cause cartels, calling it “slander.”
(With inputs from AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera)
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