Mexico City (EFE).- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the United Nations Organization (UN) “stuck” on Thursday after a report indicating an increase in drug trafficking and drug use in the country.
“It is that the UN is very stagnant, it is not doing its job, it is not doing anything to combat the main problem in the world, which is inequality, they do nothing. But they also don’t do anything to prevent wars,” the president said at his daily press conference.
criticism of the UN
His statements come after the annual report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which reported that Mexico remains one of the main countries for trafficking, transit and consumption of methamphetamine. and amphetamine, the most illegally manufactured drugs in the world.
The agency’s researchers highlighted the role of Mexico in drug trafficking in North America, considered the main market for the consumption of methamphetamines and synthetic amphetamines.
Without referring to the findings on drugs, López Obrador insisted that the UN “are not doing their job.”
He also asserted that the organization has forgotten “its basic principles”, which are, according to him, guaranteeing freedom of speech, freedom of belief, living without fear or fear, and living free of misery.
“It is a beautiful building in New York with many experts in everything, who earn a lot of money, have all the specialties and forget the foundations that served to build the UN,” he accused.
Drug trafficking, on the bilateral agenda of Mexico and the US.
The report comes amid mounting pressure from Washington for Mexico to crack down on drug cartels, particularly those that traffic fentanyl.
Republican politicians in the United States have proposed declaring war on the Mexican cartels and designating them as terrorist groups.
López Obrador indicated that he is already working with the new Mexican foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena, to address the challenges of drug trafficking, but asked to frame the pressures as part of the United States presidential campaigns.
“We are already working (with Bárcena) on issues: migration, drugs, arms trafficking, these are the issues. And because of the electoral season that is about to arrive, it is already starting in the United States, because we have to be very aware of two issues where they always want to involve Mexico: drugs and migration, ”she said.