Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her agreement to delay tariffs with President Donald Trump does not involve allowing an increase of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officers in Mexico.
In response to a question at her regular morning press conference about whether Trump asked to increase the DEA’s presence in Mexico, Sheinbaum said what Mexico is asking of the United States is coordination and collaboration.
Trump’s pick to lead the DEA is a former counternarcotics agent who led the U.S. Department of Justice division that was instrumental in the capture of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
During a phone call on Monday with Trump, Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 additional Mexican National Guard troops to the border. In exchange, the United States said it would delay tariffs on her country for at least the next month.
The first of those troops arrived at the border in recent days.
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As of next week, around 1,500 cattle will cross into Arizona from Mexico each day, even as active cases of New World screwworm top 100 in the Mexican state of Sonora. -
Mexico’s security secretary says the new federal prisons will include high-security infrastructure as the country looks to show a crackdown on cartel violence. -
Nearly 2,000 firearms were seized in the Mexican state south of Arizona last year. Officials say the majority of guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States. -
An inspection at a Mexican military checkpoint in San Luis Río Colorado resulted in the arrest of two people and the seizure of more than a ton of white powder. -
The constitutional reform requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates in Mexico to renounce any non-Mexican citizenship.
