ONDCP Director Carter on Univision: Intelligence Sharing With Mexico Against the Cartels
September 22, 2026 · Office of National Drug Control Policy · 0:01:15
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What happened
Director Sara Carter of the Office of National Drug Control Policy joined Univision to describe the administration’s partnership with Mexico to stop illicit drugs from flowing across the border, according to the video description. Carter said the two countries are working very closely together and that the effort is about shared intelligence and about preserving each nation’s sovereignty.
Carter said that if the United States has information it can share with Mexico to take down a cartel or capture a notorious cartel leader, it wants to be able to do that, and that most of the work — conducted with the DEA, U.S. intelligence, Mexican intelligence, and the Mexican military — is highly successful, as she stated it.
She also paid tribute to Mexican forces killed fighting the cartel leader known as El Mencho, saying Mexico lost national guardsmen and three special operators in the fight to capture him, which eventually led to his death, according to her remarks.
Why it matters
Carter’s interview states the administration’s counternarcotics model for Mexico — intelligence sharing with sovereignty preserved — and publicly credits Mexican casualties in the El Mencho operation, framing cartel enforcement as a joint fight rather than a unilateral one.
Sources: Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Director Carter joins Univision”, 2026-09-22 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-09-22). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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