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Mex­i­can Pres­i­dent Clau­dia Shein­baum re­spond­ed sharply Thurs­day to U.S. gov­ern­ment sanc­tions block­ing trans­fers from three Mex­i­can fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, say­ing Wash­ing­ton hasn’t shown ev­i­dence of its al­le­ga­tions of mon­ey laun­der­ing.

The U.S. Trea­sury De­part­ment an­nounced the sanc­tions Wednes­day on the banks CIBan­co and In­ter­cam Ban­co and the bro­ker­age Vec­tor Casa de Bol­sa, al­leg­ing that they had fa­cil­i­tat­ed mil­lions of dol­lars in mon­ey trans­fers for Mex­i­can drug car­tels.

Shein­baum said dur­ing her morn­ing news brief­ing Thurs­day that the ad­min­is­tra­tion of U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump had showed no ev­i­dence prov­ing that the in­sti­tu­tions car­ried out any mon­ey laun­der­ing, de­spite re­peat­ed re­quests for such ev­i­dence.