00:00El secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, afirmó que los esfuerzos de México para combatir a los cárteles de la
00:07droga están lejos de ser suficientes.
00:09Advirtió que Washington enfrentará a estos grupos de una forma u otra.
00:14Durante una visita a Quito, Ecuador, aseguró que existen amplios territorios mexicanos donde, según él, el Estado lo ejerce plenamente
00:21su autoridad.
00:22Rubio reconoció las acciones del gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum contra el crimen organizado, pero señaló que Estados Unidos espera intensificar
00:32la lucha en coordinación con México.
00:34Advirtió que los cárteles tienen capacidad para desafiar al Estado mediante asesinatos de políticos, candidatos, jueces, incluso periodistas.
00:44Además de representar una creciente amenaza transfronteriza por el uso de drones y sofisticadas redes para el tráfico de drogas
00:53inmigrantes.
00:55Gracias.
00:56Talking about groups that are stronger than the state and fracturing the state, it sounds like a pretty similar situation
01:01in Mexico.
01:03Yeah, Mexico's bad. It's a bad situation.
01:05Given the fact that the Mexican government isn't welcoming or draws a pretty bright line about what it will accept
01:11in terms of U.S. military involvement,
01:13what is the plan for that? How can you overcome that and have this kind of more tough approach that
01:18you're describing?
01:19Yeah, the case of Mexico, it's an even graver challenge because of the size of the country, because of the
01:24power of the cartels that are there.
01:26I don't think it's any mystery to anybody that there are territories, vast territories in Mexico that are not governed
01:32by the state.
01:32They are controlled by these narco-terrorist organizations.
01:34Now, I will say this, in fairness, the Mexicans have done more than they've ever done before to go after
01:39these groups, but it is still not nearly enough.
01:42They know that, we've expressed that to them, and we hope to work cooperatively with them to do more.
01:46Because at the end, the head of the snake are these cartels in Mexico, and they are a threat to
01:51the Mexican state, and the people of Mexico will tell you that.
01:53The number one issue in Mexico, poll after poll shows, is security.
01:57Political candidates are routinely assassinated in Mexico.
02:00Judges routinely assassinated.
02:02Journalists who report on the cartels routinely assassinated by these groups.
02:06So these groups pose an enormous threat right on our border.
02:09These groups are very dangerous. They're very well financed. They need to be confronted.
02:12Our hope and our intent is to do it in partnership with Mexico.
02:15That's the ideal, but eventually, that threat will have to be confronted one way or the other.
02:19But our hope is to do it cooperatively with Mexican authorities.
02:22This is the secretary.
02:23Thank you.
02:24Thank you.
02:26Thank you.
02:30Thank you.
