Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said unilateral U.S. military motion inside Mexico “won’t occur” on Tuesday.
Her comments come after NBC News published a report Monday, which said the U.S. had begun detailed planning for a brand new anti-cartel mission inside Mexico, including sending troops and intelligence officers to the country.
“It won’t occur. Now we have no reports that it’ll occur… And besides, we don’t conform to it,” Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference when asked concerning the NBC report.
The report claimed that early stages of coaching had already begun in addition to discussions concerning the scope of the “potential mission.” It also indicated that U.S. troops would operate under “the authority of the U.S. intelligence community, often called Title 50 status.”
It did note that a final decision on the mission had not been made and the main points got here from “two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials acquainted with the trouble.”
This isn’t the primary time Sheinbaum has rejected unilateral U.S. military motion inside Mexico.
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In April, Sheinbaum said the country would categorically reject any unilateral U.S. military motion in Mexico and warned that such measures “wouldn’t resolve anything” amid threats from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to make use of drone strikes against drug cartels.
Sheinbaum spoke to reporters on April 8 during a every day news conference and answered questions about one other NBC News report that claimed Trump’s administration is considering drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico to combat trafficking across the shared border.
“The people of Mexico won’t, under any circumstances, accept intervention, interference, or some other act from abroad,” Sheinbaum told reporters.
“We don’t agree with any form of intervention or interference,” Sheinbaum added. “This has been very clear: We coordinate, we collaborate, [but] we usually are not subordinate and there isn’t any meddling in these actions.”
NBC News cited six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter. It said officials were saying that the Trump administration was weighing drone strikes in Mexico “to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border,” adding that no decision had been made.
Sheinbaum stated that the U.S. and Mexico have an excellent ongoing dialogue on security issues and that she didn’t think the U.S. would pursue such unilateral motion.
In February, Sheinbaum said that Mexico won’t tolerate an “invasion” of its national sovereignty after the Trump administration moved to formally designate eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
“This can’t be a possibility for the U.S. to invade our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said during a press briefing on Feb. 20. “With Mexico it’s collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”
“We wish to be clear given this designation that we don’t negotiate our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum added. “There will be no interference or subordination.
“Each countries want to scale back the consumption of medicine and the trafficking of illegal drugs.”
Sheinbaum said her government was not consulted by america in its decision to include Mexican cartels on an inventory of worldwide terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa cartel, United cartel, the Michoacana family and the Jalisco Recent Generation cartel.
— With files from Reuters
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