Mexico City – Mexico City (AP) – President Claudia Sheinbaum From Mexico on Saturday that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed to send US troops to Mexico to help his administration fight drug trafficking, but that he rejected it.
His comments to the supporters in eastern Mexico arrived in response to an article by Wall Street Journal published the previous day, describing a tense phone call last month in which, according to reports, Trump pressed it to accept a more important role for the US army to combat drug cartels in Mexico.
“He said: ‘How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the military of the United States come and help it.” And do you know what I said?
He added: “Sovereignty is not on sale. Sovereignty is loved and defended.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Sheinbaum’s comments.
The US military presence has constantly increased along its southern border with Mexico in recent months, after Trump’s order in January to increase the role of the army in the arrest of the flow of migrants.
The United States Northern Command has Troops and equipment on the borderIt increased manned surveillance flights to monitor fentanyl traffic along the border and sought an enlarged authority so that the special forces of the United States work closely with Mexican forces that perform operations against posters.
Trump appointed many of the gangs and posters of smuggling drugs in the United States As foreign terrorist organizations on February 19, Restrict their movements and loans to the application of the law more resources to act against them.
But Sheinbaum’s hard line posture on Saturday pointed out that the United States pressure for unilateral military intervention would already put it Trump in a collision course After months of cooperation on immigration and commerce.
“We can work together, but you in your territory and us in ours,” said Sheinbaum.
To a burst of applause, he added: “We will never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territory.”
