Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that unilateral U.S. military action inside Mexico “will not happen.”
Your comments come later NBC News published a report Monday, which said the United States had begun detailed planning for a new anti-cartel mission inside Mexico, including sending troops and intelligence officers to the country.
“It’s not going to happen. We have no reports that it’s going to happen… And also, we don’t agree with that,” Sheinbaum said during his morning press conference when asked about the NBC report.
The report stated that the first stages of training had already begun, as well as discussions about the scope of the “potential mission.” He also indicated that US troops would operate under “the authority of the US intelligence community, known as Title 50 status.”
He did note that no final decision had been made on the mission and that details came from “two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.”
This is not the first time that Sheinbaum rejects unilateral military action by the United States within Mexico.
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In April, Sheinbaum said the country would categorically reject any unilateral US military action in Mexico and warned that such measures would “solve nothing” amid threats from US President Donald Trump’s administration to use drone strikes against drug cartels.
Sheinbaum spoke to reporters on April 8 during a daily press conference and answered questions. about another NBC News report which claimed the Trump administration is considering drone strikes against drug cartels in Mexico to combat trafficking across their shared border.
“The people of Mexico will not accept, under any circumstances, intervention, interference or any other act from abroad,” Sheinbaum told reporters.
“We do not agree with any type of intervention or interference,” Sheinbaum added. “This has been very clear: we coordinate, we collaborate, [but] “We are not subordinates and there is no interference in these actions.”
NBC News cited six current and former US military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter. He said officials said 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 United States and Mexico have a good ongoing dialogue on security issues and that he did not believe the United States would take such unilateral action.
In February, Sheinbaum said Mexico will not tolerate an “invasion” of its national sovereignty after the Trump administration took steps to formally designate eight Latin American criminal organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
“This cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said during a Feb. 20 press conference. “With Mexico it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”
“We want to make it clear that, given this designation, we do not negotiate our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum added. “There can be no interference or subordination.
“Both countries want to reduce drug consumption and illegal drug trafficking.”
Sheinbaum said his government was not consulted by the United States in its decision to include Mexican cartels on a list of global terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa cartel, the Unidos cartel, the Michoacana family and the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel.
— With Reuters files
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