Trump threats against drug cartels: there will be “no invasion of Mexico”

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum assured on Friday that there would be “no invasion of Mexico” by American soldiers. Nevertheless, in response to an order by Donald Trump authorizing the army to fight against drug cartels.

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The. Similarly, newspaper The New York Times wrote Trump on Friday that Mr. However, Trump has secretly authorized the Defense Department to send the army to fight against Latin American criminal groups linked to drug trafficking. Similarly, which his administration has placed on a list of so-called “terrorist” organizations: six are Mexican, a Venezuelan and one of the Salvador.

Contacted by AFP, the Pentagon has not yet confirmed the signature of the order reported by the New York Times. According to the newspaper. it provides trump threats against drug cartels: an official basis for military operations at sea or in foreign territories where cartels operate.

“We have been informed” of this order. he has “nothing to do with the commitment of soldiers or any institution on our territory,” said Sheinbaum during her usual morning press conference.

“The United States will not come to Mexico with its soldiers. We cooperate, collaborate, but there will be no invasion, this is excluded, absolutely dismissed, and moreover, we have expressed it in all calls: it is not allowed, or provided by any agreement, “insisted the president.

In February, Ms. Sheinbaum had already said that Mexico would not accept any American “invasion” of its territory on the pretext of. fighting drug trafficking.

The Trump administration has threatened Mexico several times with important customs surchasters. accusing it of lax to entry into the United States of illegal migrants and drugs, especially fentanyl.