(NewsNation) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has come out in favor of negotiating a peace settlement with the nation’s highly effective drug cartels.
The Mexican chief was responding to an open letter from a Mexican activist whose brother is lacking. The activist was calling on the leaders of the drug cartels to finish the apply of pressured disappearances.
“I agree and I hope we obtain peace — that’s what all of us need,” the Mexican president stated in regards to the letter in response to a query from a reporter throughout a press convention. “Violence is irrational, and we’re going to proceed in search of peace, to realize peace, and that’s what we’re doing. And if there may be an initiative of this type, in fact we assist it.”
“Basically, the objective is to cease this staggering degree of violence that we’ve seen, and we’ve seen enhance underneath his administration,” NewsNation Washington correspondent Evan Lambert defined throughout an look on “NewsNation Now.”
The Mexican president’s assertion comes as there are rising calls by politicians within the U.S. for a harder stance towards the drug cartels. Some members of Congress need the cartels to be handled as terrorist organizations, citing the circulation of medicine which might be killing Individuals.
