Marcelo Ebrard criticizes statements by Ron DeSantis and calls him racist

The candidate for the presidential candidacy for the ruling party in Mexico, Marcelo Ebrardstrongly criticized the threats made by the candidate for the presidency of USA Ron DeSantis of shooting anyone who looks like a drug trafficker on its southern border and accused him of being a racist.

The former Mexican foreign minister also maintained that if he dared to keep his promises, Mexico should break relations with USAwhich implies enormous economic and social damage.

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“Mexico is the main partner of the United States, it means that Mexico has the most important manufacturing and services establishment in the world and it will become more and more so due to the relocation of companies (…) that you send armed forces or drones is How to blow up your own economic system”, Ebrard abounded in the last days before the survey with which it will be determined who is the candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (brunette) to the Presidency of Mexico.

This weekend, the governor of Florida and candidate for the presidency of the United States, Ron DeSantis He said his immigration policy would be to shoot anyone who looks like a drug trafficker and categorize drug and human trafficking as terrorism, so he can send troops and technology to the Mexican side of the border.

Ebrard commented at a public event in northern Mexico that the governor of Florida is “flared”, towards the process of succession in the US presidency, and that is why it makes difficult positions to comply with.

In addition, he blamed the United States for the creation of fentanyl and questioned the lack of action by the Florida Government against the great addiction problem that it currently has.

“The governor is in the campaign and what they are trying to do is win votes for the Republican party, which is the most conservative. (…) They have handled a lie repeatedly blaming Mexico for having created the fentanylit is an absolute falsehood”, he expressed.

He added that fentanyl in the United States is created based on an authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English) to a pharmaceutical to sell the drug on every corner.

The aspirant to be the candidate who competes for the party of the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the June 2024 presidential election, he considered that Americans cannot give way to a candidate who has dared to introduce racist bills.

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“All racism must be rejected because it leads to brutality and the precipice and DeSantis knows it”, he insisted.

For his part, the former Mexican diplomat spoke about the fire at the facilities of the Migration’s national institute in this border city, where 40 migrants died and assured that, “the first thing is that there is no impunity”.

He pointed out that investment in immigration policy is required, as well as deepening collaboration with the US and implementing solutions to the immigration crisis in the North American region, such as the almost 900,000 visa permits that will be delivered this year.

Source: Elcomercio

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