AZMEX EXTRA-2 19-10-19

AZMEX EXTRA-2 19 OCT 2019


AMLO and Trump agree to take actions to "freeze" arms trafficking
López Obrador received a call from Trump, who expressed his solidarity with the case of Ovidio Guzmán that unleashed violence in Culiacán.
By El Universal
October 19

https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/AMLO-y-Trump-acuerdan-tomar-acciones-para-congelar-trafico-de-armas--20191019-0046.html

AMLO and Trump held a phone call where they played the subject of Culiacán, Sinaloa.

OAXACA, Oaxaca.- The presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the United States, Donald Trump,
agreed to take immediate action to "freeze" the traffic of high-power weapons to our country,
such as those used by organized crime last Thursday in Culiacán, Sinaloa,
in the failed operation against Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

This was reported by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón
when he announced the issues discussed in the telephone conversation between both leaders.

"I want to ask you, said the President (López Obrador) that using technology in the two countries,
we will close, at the border, freeze the arms traffic that is causing casualties in Mexico,
and President Trump's response was that he it seemed very good that it is done based on technology
, "Ebrard said that was one of the issues in the call that both heads of state held this morning.

The Foreign Minister said that the 50-caliber weapons used by criminal groups last Thursday are typical of a war
and had continued the operation against the alleged drug trafficker, he estimated, would have caused more than 200 civilian casualties.

Ebrard Casaubón explained that yesterday an extraordinary work table of the high-level group of Mexico-United States
was held in which the Security Cabinet, its American counterpart, Ambassador Cristhoper Landau,
as well as representatives of the DEA and of The American embassy

They agreed that next week together with the Secretary of Security, Alfonso Durazo and his counterparts from the United States
would meet to present immediate actions to achieve the objective of freezing,
not reducing, freezing arms trafficking to Mexico from the United States.

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