The attached chief of Cabinet of the White House, said that Mexico City “is directed by criminal posters.” The powerful advisor of Donald Trump has used, in an interview in Fox News, to the Mexican capital to hit the mayors of Chicago and Baltimore: “These Democratic cities are more violent than Baghdad, more violent than the communities of Ethiopia, places that many Americans would not even dare to visit, some of the most dangerous places on the planet Earth. Mexico!”. President Claudia Sheinbaum, who was head of government of the capital until 2023, has answered the official on Monday and has assured that they will send the figures to reduce crimes: “It is not what this person imagines.”
Miller’s attack is part of Trump’s strategy to militarize cities under Democratic control with the argument of imposing law and order. The Republican president already ordered on August 11 and took control of the Local Police. Despite the criticism of neighbors, experts and organizations, Trump presumed that his measure had achieved. Now, the president wants to make the same movement in Baltimore and Chicago, in the Democratic states of Maryland and Illinois, for being “out of control and plagued by crime.”
It is for that internal fight that the Republican government reuses Mexico as a piñata. It is not the first time. A couple of weeks ago Trump said: “Today is higher than that of Bogotá, in Colombia, or Mexico City, or some of the places that are considered the worst of the world.” On that occasion, Sheinbaum has already agreed to defend the management in the capital. The same as this Monday, when he has pointed out that “the reduction of homicides in Mexico City of 2018 to date is almost 60%” and has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretariat of Security to make Miller reach these statistics “because maybe they do not know them.”
“There is a very important job to address security in the city, the perception of security has increased a lot,” said the president, who highlighted the work that her team did first and then that of the current head of government, with two patrols per quadrant. ” Americans living in the Mexican capital: “He probably does not have this information.”
