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Mexico said the US military would not enter into its territory after reports that President Donald Trump had sent the Pentagon to orientation to Latin American drug addiction.
“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday. “We cooperate, cooperate, but it will not be invaded. It is excluded, completely excluded.”
On Friday, The New York Times reported that Trump secretly signed the directive to start using military force on foreign land.
In a BBC statement, the White House did not address this directive, but stated that “Trump’s main priority is to defend the Motherland.”
It seems that the reported directive complies with the executive order signed by Trump earlier this year, officially appointing eight drug cartels as terrorist formations – six of which are Mexican.
Speaking to the journalists, Sheinbaum said the Mexican government was informed that the cartel orders were coming, and “that it has nothing to do with the participation of any military personnel.”
“It is not part of any agreements far from it. When it is raised, we always said” no, “she said.
Earlier this year, Sheinbaum told reporters that Trump’s decision to appoint cartels as terrorists “could not be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty.”
On Thursday, Secretary of State Mark Rubio said the appointment would help American carts, including through special services and the Ministry of Defense.
“We must start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not just drug organizations,” Rubio said.
The New York Times said that the Directive signed by Trump provides a “official basis for the possibility of direct hostilities” against cartels, both in the sea and on foreign soil.
In recent months, Mexico has cooperated with the US to stop the illegal flow of both migrants and drugs across the US and Mexico.
In June, the most border crossings were recorded, according to the US Customs and Border Protection, and last week, US Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said the fentanyl’s attacks on the border decreased more than twice.
In a report on X, Johnson noted cooperation between Sheinbum and Trump, writing that their leadership led to the fact that the cartels were “bankrupt and our countries are safer of that.”
