Washington, Jan 18 (EFE) .- The US diplomat Roberta Jacobson will be in charge of managing the border relationship with Mexico by the Administration of future President Joe Biden, confirmed Monday his main adviser for Latin America, Juan Sebastián González.
“I have always admired Roberta Jacobson. Respected, experienced, and capable, few care so much or have worked so hard to advance US-Mexico relations so that they reach their full potential,” said González, who has been appointed to lead the issues. of Latin America within the National Security Council of the Biden White House, in a message on Twitter.
Jacobson, who was the US ambassador to Mexico between 2016 and 2018, will be the Southwest Border Coordinator at the National Security Council.
This is a newly created position from which he will coordinate issues related to national security in Mexico and Central America.
Relations between the United States and Mexico are experiencing an increase in tensions after Mexico exonerated former Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos last week after being extradited to Mexico and accused by Washington of ties to drug trafficking.
Cienfuegos was captured last October in Los Angeles and later transferred to New York, where he was accused of having protected and received bribes from the now-defunct Mexican H-2 cartel, a spin-off of the Beltrán Leyva criminal group practically unknown until the arrest of the general.
In November, however, the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office and the Department of Justice reached an extraordinary agreement whereby the United States withdrew the drug trafficking and money laundering accusations against Cienfuegos, in exchange for it being investigated in Mexico.
His exoneration in Mexico has been a strong blow to the investigations of the United States Drug Control Agency (DEA, in English), already irritated by the decision of the Mexican government to limit the work of that and other foreign security agencies.
These tensions occur just two days after Biden comes to power, and increases uncertainty about the direction the bilateral relationship will take.
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