00:00Secretary, on Russia's sanctions, to what extent did that come up to further strengthen sanctions?
00:07Well, there's not a lot left to sanction from our part.
00:09I mean, we hit their major oil companies, which is what everybody's been asking for.
00:12Obviously, those have to be implemented, and it'll take some time to begin to feel it.
00:16But, you know, I mean, I don't know what more there is to do.
00:20I mean, we're running out of things to sanction in that regard.
00:23Well, Shadow Fleet is an enforcement mechanism, and obviously, sanctions have to be enforced.
00:27So, you know, we don't put sanctions in and not enforce them.
00:30We're interested in enforcing them as well.
00:32But that's more of an enforcement matter.
00:34And Shadow Fleet has come up because I do think there are things that the Europeans can do on Shadow Fleet,
00:39since a lot of these are happening in areas much closer to them.
00:42Mr. Secretary, on the Pacific.
00:44Who is your Mexican counterpart?
00:45Yeah.
00:46And you've talked about Mexico helping more than ever before.
00:50There's been a high-profile assassination in recent weeks of a mayor of a town in the state of Michoacán in Mexico.
00:57How concerned are you about Mexico's public security situation?
01:00What more can the U.S. do to help Mexico to take on the scourge of the cartels and the violence?
01:05Well, we're willing to provide them any help they want.
01:07You know, obviously, they don't want us to take—we're not going to take unilateral action or go in and send American forces into Mexico.
01:12But we can help them with equipment, with training, with intelligence sharing, with all kinds of things that we could do if they asked for it.
01:17They've got to ask for it.
01:18But look, you asked about one mayor.
01:20It's not just that there's been other mayors.
01:22There's been journalists.
01:23There's been politicians.
01:24There's been judges.
01:25These cartels are very powerful.
01:27One of the things that no one is discussing enough is the rise of these transnational terrorist organizations.
01:34And just because they're not ideologically driven does not mean they're not terrorists.
01:37You don't have to be ideological to be a terrorist.
01:39And they're terrorists because they possess, in many cases, more weapons, better training, better intelligence, and more capabilities than nation-states do.
01:47In the case of Ecuador, these terrorist organizations are threatening the Ecuadorian state.
01:52I mean, planning IDFs and attacking—sorry, planning IEDs and attacking the presidential convoy.
02:02In Mexico, there are areas of the country that are, frankly, run by and governed by.
02:06These cartels are more powerful than local law enforcement or even the national forces are.
02:10So these are a concern throughout the hemisphere.
02:12In the case of Haiti, the Haitian problem is not with some ideological movement.
02:18The Haitian problem is with armed gangs that, in many cases, are stronger and more capable than the Haitian forces are to be able to stand up against them.
02:26So this is something that—it's probably the most serious endemic problem in the region is that these aren't just criminal organizations.
02:34They are terroristic organizations because they threaten the viability and the capabilities of nation-states.
02:39They undermine—and they're trying to—in the case of Haiti, they're trying to make Haiti have no government at all.
02:44It's just a playground for them.
02:45That's sort of what the Maduro regime has become in Venezuela, and they would have empowered, and obviously in areas of Mexico as well.
02:51But the level of cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico today is at an all-time high, and it's growing, and it's positive.
02:57And it's driven by what they ask for, what they need, and by helping them improve their own capabilities if they ask us for that help.
03:03And they have in some cases, and others, you know, they have those capabilities already.
03:06So we have a very good relationship with them.
03:08We've made incredible strides in the first ten months of this year.
03:11But it's a big problem that's been existing for a very long time, so we're taking on something that's been there for a long time.
03:16So it's going to take a while to see measurable progress.
03:18In some cases, we already have.
03:20We're getting extraditions faster than we ever have, for example.
03:23Not always, but in many of these cases.
03:26So we have no complaints on the level of cooperation we've had from Mexico, and the work we're doing with them is historic, right?
03:32But there's more to be done.
03:34On Haiti, did you get any commitments today at the G7?
03:37Well, I mean, the Canadians have stepped up already.
03:39For the gang force?
03:40Yeah, so we have two challenges in Haiti.
03:41The first is we have to finish out the transition period to the gang suppression force.
03:44So there's another three months early next year that has to be funded.
03:47We have agreed to fund the first half of the transition phase, which takes us to the end of this calendar year.
03:52And now the money needs to be raised from international partners to fund the second three or four months transition.
03:57Then we need to raise money for the UN office and the gang suppression force.
04:00And we have to get countries to volunteer to send forces.
04:03We can't just have the Kenyans doing it alone with 2,000 troops.
04:06So there's a lot of work to be done.
04:07We work on it every single day.
04:08We have a whole crew that's working on that every single day.
04:11And we're asking for three things.
04:12Money for the remaining transition phase.
04:15We covered half of it.
04:16The rest of the world should be able to cover the other half.
04:18Second is money for the UN office and the gang suppression force.
04:21And third are the forces.
04:23Countries make a commitment to bring forces to bear so that they can rise to 5,000 as opposed to 2,000.
04:30And we're very grateful to what the Kenyans have done already.
04:32So we don't want to see them abandoned.
04:34And we welcome them and we encourage them to remain a part of the gang suppression force.
04:37Is someone ready to take over for their Kenyans?
04:39Well, other countries will join it is what we hope.
04:42It won't just be the Kenyans by themselves.
04:44No, no, yeah.
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