Mexico presented new results this week in its operation to curb the country’s drug smuggling operations.
The country’s military says it has confiscated thousands of fentanyl pills and arrested more than two thousand people this year, in an effort to crack down on cartels near the U.S.-Mexico border.
The arrests and confiscations are part of Mexico’s “Operation Northern Border,” an undertaking focused largely on illegal activity in the country’s north.
The operation started in early February, shortly after President Donald Trump took office in the U.S. and threatened Mexico with a 25% tariff on all goods.
Since then, Mexico has sought to show results in its fight against cartels. In Sonora, south of Arizona, the military most recently touted the April 9 arrest of six people suspected of organized crime.
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Mexico’s security secretary says the new federal prisons will include high-security infrastructure as the country looks to show a crackdown on cartel violence. -
Nearly 2,000 firearms were seized in the Mexican state south of Arizona last year. Officials say the majority of guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States. -
An inspection at a Mexican military checkpoint in San Luis Río Colorado resulted in the arrest of two people and the seizure of more than a ton of white powder. -
The constitutional reform requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates in Mexico to renounce any non-Mexican citizenship. -
Dr. Jesús Maximiano Verduzco Soto turned himself in to authorities in Hermosillo after evading arrest for months.
