Mexico, US stress attacking cartels’ business models, guns

A security meeting between Mexican and U.S. officials on Thursday stressed attacking drug cartels’ business interests, the guns they use and the addictions they profit from.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said the talks proved that a good relationship exists between the administrations of U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The department said the two countries set as priorities “reducing the flow of arms and drugs, reducing the violence caused by organized crime, treating addictions as a public health problem and attacking the finances of criminal . . .