Overview
- Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente met ONDCP director Sara Carter to strengthen bilateral drug policy focused on prevention and public health.
- Both sides agreed to intensify work to dismantle supply chains for fentanyl and other synthetic drugs and to curb illicit arms trafficking.
- Mexico’s foreign ministry said the strategy rests on mutual respect for sovereignty, shared responsibility, and protection of communities on both sides of the border.
- U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson and Mexico’s Roberto Velasco participated, and ONDCP said on X the meeting advanced efforts against drug trafficking.
- The engagement followed Mexico’s Feb. 22 operation that killed CJNG leader “El Mencho,” which U.S. officials praised as successful, and Carter visited the Basílica de Guadalupe citing faith’s role in addiction recovery.