Reforma, 2/24/2010
The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Saukhan, denied on Wednesday that both countries are negotiating the arrival of US anti-narcotics agents to Ciudad Juárez to perform operations, as the Washington Post reported today.
According to the diplomat, both countries spoke about how to improve the exchange of intelligence between agencies, but not about authorizing US agents to perform their own operations beyond the ongoing operations that have been in effect since 1992.
“I want to be very clear on this. At no moment has there been an attempt to infringe upon, violate or modify the laws that regulate the presence of foreign agents, in this case US, in Mexican territory,” Sarukhan said to reporters.
At the same session, the US ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, denied that his country currently has agents performing operations in Mexican territory and that they have no intention to seek a change in Mexican law in order to allow such operations.
Read the original Washington Post article
