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The Guardian - US
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Thomas Graham in Mexico City

Trump’s claim that Mexican cartels and government are allied is not reality

President Donald Trump
Trump’s administration claimed an ‘alliance’ between Mexico’s government and organised crime. Photograph: Anna Rose Layden/EPA

Mexico breathed a sigh of relief this week when Donald Trump delayed his threatened tariffs by a month, apparently swerving away from an economic crisis at the last moment.

But one aspect of the spat still rankles: the Trump administration’s vague but shocking accusation of an “intolerable alliance” between Mexico’s government and organised crime.

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