Sheinbaum says Mexico City is safer than US capital, but rejects Trump’s portrayal of Latin American cities as more dangerous
Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has affirmed claims made by Donald Trump that Washington DC had a higher murder rate than Mexico City, a statistic used by the US leader to justify his takeover of policing in the US capital.
“He said something like ‘Washington is more unsafe than Mexico City,’ which is true,” Sheinbaum said on Tuesday. “What we don’t agree with is when he said that it’s the most unsafe city in Latin America.”
Sheinbaum’s comments came after the US president announced on Monday that he had ordered the national guard to Washington DC and seized control of the city’s police force, describing the US capital as “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world”.
“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth,” Trump said.
