For years, a controversial idea has been circulating in the collective mind of Mexico related to the fight against different national problems, the most urgent of these would be, in these times, the relationship with public security linked to drug trafficking activities.

That thought has to do with the intervention of the United States government in the combat of drug trafficking gangs from Mexico, which have become armed groups that have involved a whole range of crimes that impacts the Mexican population.

The violence that criminal organizations take place to carry out their activities is one of the main conflicts that Mexicans face, given the impunity with which they operate and which, consequently, provokes the constant and increasing sea criminal siege.

On the other hand, it is more desirable that the US authorities control the sale of arms and ammunition than, through the same routes and methods that move drugs, that are found in the national territory to arm criminals, than in some parts of the country exceed the level of political corporations and even the Army and high-powered weapons.

Of course, the idea is highly debatable, since some sectors are in favor of openly adopting this strategy, but others affirm that it is Mexico that must autonomously resolve its problems.

However, all we know and it is more than evident, drug trafficking not only concerns our country and the United States, but also breaks into an illegal multinational activity that affects many sides.

So why not establish a multinational dynamic to fight drug traffickers? It sounds easier than it actually is. The policies of each country involved are difficult to assume in order to do so.

In the specific case of Mexico and the United States, over the years it has had encounters and disagreements in the midst of this fight against drug trafficking. The truth is that the more differences there are between the two countries, the more fertile ground that illegal activity has for problems and expansion.

Cooperation between both nations, adjusted to law and with a genuine interest in fighting crime, could benefit the common citizen, especially in Mexico, where violence carried out through homicide, extortion, kidnapping, and theft is an everyday thing.

With previous Mexican federal administrations, there would be ups and downs in this cooperation with the United States, with the current one - apparently - that relationship could be more proactive and, perhaps, improve the situation in the national territory.

The government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been more inclined to collaborate with the northern country in search of fighting the violence generated by drug traffickers that plague several territories in Mexico.

One of the points that are being worked on, specifically, is to stop the illegal flow of weapons and bullets that came to the hands of criminals from the United States, which, without regard, sometimes against whoever is facing them.

American media writers, such as The Wall Street Journal, perceive that López Obrador is under pressure from the Donald Trump administration to fight drug trafficking.

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Martin Orquiz Journalist in Ciudad Juárez, from where he has published for the newspaper El Fronterizo, El Diario de Juárez, Newsweek and La Verdad. He has worked as a reporter, information coordinator, and editor. He is a communicology from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua and has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at El Paso. He received the María Moors Cabot Award 2011 - in the team with the writing of El Diario de Juárez -, he is also co-author of the collective book ‘You and I agree on a terrible night’.