US Attorney Hosts Meeting With Mexico’s Attorney General

SAN JUAN, P.R. – Today, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, met with Raúl Cervantes Andrade, Attorney General for Mexico, Alberto Elías Beltrán, Head of the Deputy Attorney General’s Office for Legal and International Affairs, and Beatriz Navarro Parada, Appointed Consul from the Mexican General Consulate in San Juan, US Attorney’s Office announced. The following joint statement was issued after the meeting:

We, the Attorney General of México and the United States Department of Justice, having gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 6th of June 2017, intend to increase our efforts to combat jointly transnational organized crime through the strengthening of our justice institutions, including by:

• Recognizing that transnational criminal organizations and their illicit activities pose a common threat to the region;

• Implementing policies to increase the effectiveness and capacity of law enforcement, prosecuting agencies, and justice sector leadership, particularly as Mexico transitions to an accusatorial justice system; and

• Improving coordination and information sharing to more effectively dismantle transnational criminal organizations.