Mexico and the United States are telling us they see eye-to-eye on organized crime. They don’t.
On July 24, the Department of Homeland Security announced that officials from the U.S. and Mexico reinforced their commitment to "joint efforts” to disrupt the trafficking of fentanyl and its precursors across the border from Mexico to the U.S., as well as the flow of weaponry moving in the other direction.
The careful phrasing of the release, however, with 38 words on what the Americans need on the fentanyl end and another 38 on what Mexicans want on weapons in return, underscores the precarious balance between the two nations’ interests.