Officials from Mexico and the United States gathered for the third meeting of a new security group created during a visit to Mexico by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio last year.
The U.S. State Department says the joint security implementation group met in Washington, D.C., where U.S. authorities reiterated their focus on ending illegal drug trafficking.
The most recent meeting comes after the transfer of 37 detained cartel members from Mexico to the United States. Mexico has sent a total of 92 prisoners to the U.S. since the beginning of last year.
The United States is also celebrating the arrest of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who was wanted on charges of high-level drug smuggling, as well as orchestrating multiple killings. Officials believe Wedding, who turned himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, was working under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel.
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As of next week, around 1,500 cattle will cross into Arizona from Mexico each day, even as active cases of New World screwworm top 100 in the Mexican state of Sonora. -
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.
