U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. November 25, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Tuesday he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists over their role in drug and human trafficking.
“They will be designated … I have been working on that for the last 90 days. You know, designation is not that easy, you have to go through a process, and we are well into that process,” Trump said in an interview with conservative media personality Bill O’Reilly that aired on Tuesday.
Mexico’s foreign minister said on Monday he did not expect the United States to make such a move.
(This story corrects attribution to reflect interview aired on Tuesday, not that it was conducted on Tuesday.)
Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Chris Reese