MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s president and the U.S. attorney general met behind closed doors Thursday, about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his government could classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. The Foreign Relations Department said the meeting between Attorney General William Barr and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was “cordial and respectful” and touched on establishing “a common front” against the cartels. “Among other things, they spoke about co-operating on weapons trafficking, money laundering, international drug trafficking and how to form a common front against international trafficking and crime,” the department said in a statement. Mexico has been pressing the United States to stop the flow of illegal weapons south, while Trump has been pushing Mexico to do more to combat cartels, like the one that killed nine U.S. dual citizens in November. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...A foreign terrorist organization designation by the U.S. government would mean it views cartels the same as groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaida.

Source: thestar December 05, 2019 20:41 UTC