Mexico will not stand US 'invasion' in fight against cartels, president says [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Thu 20 Feb 2025 11.42 EST
Last modified on Thu 20 Feb 2025 12.18 EST
Mexico will never tolerate an “invasion” of its national sovereignty by the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum has warned after Washington designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. “This cannot be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty,” the Mexican president said. “With Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”
Sheinbaum said her government was not consulted by the United States in its decision to include Mexican cartels on a list of global terrorist organizations, adding that she would propose a constitutional reform aimed at further protecting Mexico’s national sovereignty.
“The Mexican people will under no circumstances accept interventions, intrusions, or any other action from abroad that is detrimental to the integrity, independence or sovereignty of the nation … [including] violations of Mexican territory, whether by land, sea or air,” said Sheinbaum, speaking during her regular morning news conference on Thursday.
Sheinbaum’s comments marked an implicit rebuke for Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that Mexico has enabled a migrant “invasion” of the United States. They also reflected the troubled history between the two allied nations: US forces have invaded Mexico at least 10 times and in 1846 claimed nearly half of the country’s territory for the US.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/claudia-sheinbaum-trump-terrorism
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