Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000632/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Jorge Martín Frías (PfE)
In late January 2025, President Trump designated Mexican cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organisations’ so that he could allocate the requisite resources to tackling drugs.
To put a stop to drug trafficking, strong policies must be taken to combat traffickers, who are usually linked to other crimes such as human trafficking and financial crimes. Attacking cartel finances is a good strategy.
In Mexico, however, as this Member has warned, President Sheinbaum is complicit with drug traffickers, for example, her government has adopted a chapucera judicial reform that enables cartels to finance campaigns for the election and an unambitious security strategy intended to limit police capacities, which promotes illegal activities and impunity for drug trafficking in Mexico.
Between 2015 and 2023, the Commission spent EUR 140 million on aid and grants for Mexico.
- 1.Can the Commission confirm that not a single euro ends up in the hands of cartels?
- 2.I insist: will the Commission suspend all further financial transfers to Mexico until it ensures that the Mexican Government commits properly to fully tackling drug trafficking?
- 3.Will it provide the US administration with the mechanisms and tools at its disposal to combat drugs?
Submitted: 11.2.2025