MEXICO CITY– A former U.S. Army and CIA officer officially offered his qualifications to Mexico’s head of state Monday as the brand-new USA ambassador to that nation at a minute of raised united state stress to combat the medicine cartels and fragile profession arrangements.
Amb. Ron Johnson, that functioned as ambassador to El Salvador throughout the very first management of united state Head of state Donald Trump, met President Claudia Sheinbaum at the National Royal residence in addition to his other half Alina Johnson. He left without making remarks to journalism.
A united state unique pressures expert, Johnson developed a close bond with El Salvador Head Of State Nayib Bukele, regularly showing up in the head of state’s social media sites feed commemorating celebrations beyond federal government features.
Johnson had actually been a united state armed forces advisor in El Salvador throughout that nation’s civil battle in the 1980s and went after battle bad guys in the Balkans in the 1990s.
His arrival in Mexico is available in the very first year of Sheinbaum’s presidency. She has actually revealed higher determination to take a more challenging position versus the nation’s effective medicine cartels than her predecessor and a capacity to take care of the occasionally unpredictable diplomacy of the Trump management.
Trump marked several Mexican cartels foreign terrorist organizations this year and united state district attorneys announced the first terrorism-related charges versus individuals implicated of dealing with the cartels recently. He has actually likewise introduced and afterwards suspended most tariffs on imports from Mexico.
Migration has actually gone to the top of Trump’s schedule, however the circulation of travelers throughout the united state boundary that had actually currently been dropping in the last months of the Biden management has actually slowed down to a relative flow.
Sheinbaum likewise lately introduced that Mexico would increase the amount of water it sends to the Rio Grande in an effort to comprise a water financial obligation to Texas farmers.
The fatal wreck of a Mexican Navy tall ship with the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday includes another binational problem to the connection. 2 seafarers passed away and the case is under examination.
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