Mexico’s president said Tuesday that there wouldn’t be U.S. interference in her country, in response to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would strike Mexico to stop drug trafficking.
Trump said in response to a question in the Oval Office on Monday that strikes on Mexico would be “OK with me; whatever we have to do to stop drugs.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters in Mexico City that U.S. strikes in Mexico are “not going to happen.”
"We can collaborate, they can help us with information that they have, but we operate in our own territory," Sheinbaum said.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that the United States would not take unilateral military action in Mexico.
But the Trump administration has been ramping up intervention in Latin America — including several strikes on alleged drug boats in the Pacific and Caribbean that have killed dozens of people.
In a major buildup of firepower in the region, the U.S. Navy said this week a U.S. aircraft carrier and other warships had entered the Caribbean Sea.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called the recent reports from CNN and the New York Times “a fiction the size of the universe.” -
The Nogales International Film Festival will screen movies directly in front of the border wall, so people on either side can experience films together. -
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights investigation called out structural problems leading to Mexico’s more than 128,000 disappearances. -
Reports about a review of Mexico’s consulates in the United States follows the death of two U.S. agents in Mexico. -
A report found eight journalists in Mexico were murdered or disappeared last year, including one in the Mexican state south of Arizona.
