Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs?
by Patrick J. McDonnell for the Los Angeles Times
In recent days, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has touted her country’s largest-ever seizure of fentanyl and highlighted multiple crackdowns on migrants headed toward the United States.
She spoke to the press, but her most important audience is U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Her campaign is widely seen as a desperate effort to head off his pledge to impose a 25% tariff on Mexican goods when he takes office next month.
“The timing is no coincidence,” said Mexico City security analyst Eduardo Guerrero. “President Sheinbaum’s agenda has changed radically with the triumph of Trump and with the threats he directed at Mexico.”
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