Mexico’s president is warning the USA in opposition to any ‘invasion’ of its territory. : NPR
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum provides her every day morning press convention on the Nationwide Palace in Mexico Metropolis, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.
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MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s president is warning the USA in opposition to any violation of its territory.
The warning comes after the U.S. categorized six of Mexico’s greatest organized crime teams as overseas terrorist organizations. (Two others from Venezuela and El Salvador had been included in that designation.)
Throughout her morning press briefing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned the U.S. made the choice to designate the cartels as terrorist teams unilaterally, with out consulting Mexico. She mentioned Mexico, just like the U.S., is dedicated to combating drug cartels, however via cooperation not coercion.
“This designation shouldn’t be utilized by the USA as a chance to invade our sovereignty,” she mentioned.
President Trump has, up to now, floated the concept of bombing Mexico’s drug cartels in an effort to cease the circulate of artificial medication.
In a current interview, with Fox Information, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned “all choices can be on the desk” in terms of coping with the cartels.
“If we’re coping with what are designated to be overseas terrorist organizations who’re particularly focusing on People on our border… we are going to take that on,” he mentioned. “Finally, we are going to maintain nothing again to safe the American folks.”
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan immediately threatened navy motion if the cartels take goal on the U.S. safety forces now patrolling the border.
“I will will ship a warning [to cartels],” he instructed ABC Information. “You damage a border patrol, you damage a soldier, the wrath of President Trump goes to come back down.”
Sheinbaum mentioned Mexico is dedicated to working with the USA to cease the circulate of fentanyl, however Mexico, she mentioned, is not going to tolerate any American interference.
To that finish, she despatched a proposed constitutional modification to Congress that explicitly says the Mexican folks reject overseas interventions.
“The folks of Mexico will below no circumstance settle for overseas interventions… like coup d’états or interferences in our elections or the violation of the Mexican territory be it by land, sea or air,” reads one proposed constitutional change.
