If the US is frustrated by Mexico’s lack of action on fentanyl, Mexico has “every right to be frustrated, too”, said Pérez Ricart: “The US keeps selling guns that end up in Mexico.”.
Several state governors have been extradited to the US for ties to organised crime, while the Trump administration cited the case of Genaro García Luna, the former security chief who was recently sentenced to 38 years in US prison for receiving bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
Trump’s claim that Mexican cartels and government are allied is not reality Corruption in Mexico is a problem, experts say, but any claim the two are linked shows a lack of comprehension.
But one aspect of the spat still rankles: the Trump administration’s vague but shocking accusation of an “intolerable alliance” between Mexico’s government and organised crime.
“Of course Mexico has a problem with corruption,” said Carlos Pérez Ricart, a political scientist in Mexico City.
