Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum spoke by phone with the newly elected US President Donald Trump and the two discussed the issues of migration and cooperation in the field of security, BTA reported.
In “X“ Sheinbaum said her conversation with Trump was “impressive”. She added that she told Trump that caravans of migrants are not reaching Mexico's northern border with the US because they are being cared for in Mexico.
Regarding cooperation in the field of security, the goal is to strengthen it within the framework of the campaign conducted in Mexico against the consumption and trafficking of fentanyl, added the president.
Trump warned earlier this week that he would impose tariffs of 25 percent on all goods from Mexico and Canada over illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The Mexican authorities then said that they would respond in kind to these measures and that the consequences of a possible trade war would also have a negative impact on the US economy.
Fentanyl is a synthetic drug that is about 100 times more powerful than morphine and 50 times more powerful than heroin.
According to Washington, fentanyl, often made in Mexico with Chinese ingredients, has caused 70,000 overdose deaths in the US.
83 percent of Mexico's exports are destined for the United States. The two countries are part of a free trade agreement that also includes Canada. Many American car companies have factories in Mexico.
On the occasion of the conversation with Sheinbaum, Trump said on his social network "Truth Social" that he was great and that Sheinbaum agreed to end migration through Mexico to the United States, world agencies reported.
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Meanwhile, Trump said he would work on a major advertising campaign in the United States to combat the use of fentanyl, Reuters reported.
During the campaign, Americans will be told how harmful fentanyl is, Trump said on his social network "Truth Social"
„When the campaign is over, everyone will really know how terribly harmful this drug is,", Trump said.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers of provincial governments in Canada said they will work together against Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on imports of Canadian goods to the United States, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA. >
Canada's federal government and the premiers of the 10 provinces have agreed to work in a unified and coordinated manner against US President-elect Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Canadian imports, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said. “We agreed that we must be smart, strong and united in
meet this challenge," she added after a video conference meeting with the prime ministers convened by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
On Monday, Trump said he would impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico until they tighten controls on drugs, especially fentanyl, and on migrants crossing the border.
The American billionaire Elon Musk, nominated by the newly elected US President Donald Trump to improve the efficiency of the US federal administration, will be in Washington on December 5 for meetings with US parliamentarians, France Press reported, quoted by BTA.
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The focus of the meetings will be how to reduce the size of the administration and make savings, said the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Mike Johnson.
Musk has been nominated along with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to be a special adviser to Trump to head a new department that will work on government efficiency.
In mid-November in the "Wall Street Journal" he presented his project for a radical reform of the federal state. Musk has announced that he plans to eliminate family planning subsidies, lay off thousands of bureaucrats and carry out massive deregulation.
The billionaire who is the head of the companies "Tesla", "SpaceX" and "X" is the beneficiary of major contracts with the federal government. He played an important role in Trump's election campaign and since his victory the two seem inseparable.
On the campaign trail, Musk promised to cut federal spending by $2 trillion. This would be a 30 percent reduction from the 2024 budget year.