Omar García Harfuch and Terrance Cole meeting on Mexico-DEA security cooperation, Digi Mart USA News: Mexico’s Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, said he held a meeting with Terrance Cole, director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to review priority areas of security cooperation between the two countries.
Harfuch shared details of the meeting on his social media accounts.
According to Harfuch, the meeting, which had been scheduled since late October, reviewed priorities for sharing information on criminal structures, financial investigations, pending cooperation requests and the follow-up of extradition matters through the competent authorities.
Harfuch also reiterated that the meeting was held under the four principles guiding cooperation with the United States: respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, shared responsibility, mutual respect and trust, and cooperation without subordination. “Actions on Mexican territory correspond exclusively to Mexican authorities, within the scope of their respective powers,” he wrote.
The official said both sides agreed on the importance of strengthening investigations against criminal networks that generate violence and advancing the arrest of priority targets for both nations. They also discussed measures to stop the illicit trafficking of weapons into Mexico, prevent the flow of proceeds from drug sales to criminal organizations, and combat drug trafficking into the United States.
Harfuch emphasized that joint actions are carried out in accordance with the laws of both countries and that operations within Mexican territory fall exclusively under national authorities.
The DEA said the meeting between Cole and Harfuch took place last week and was intended to discuss shared efforts to dismantle criminal organizations that the agency describes as narcoterrorists, and to combat the corruption that facilitates them. “Criminal organizations do not recognize borders.
Neither does our shared commitment to bringing them to justice,” the agency said in its publication.
