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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In the Sonoran Sky Islands region, one organization is working to bring back native species. But it’s running up against a lengthening border wall. -
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico restricted the movement of U.S. government activities in Nogales, Sonora due to “threat information.” -
A decision from the United Nations’ cultural preservation body, UNESCO, calls for a mission to the Sonora desert nature reserve to assess the impacts of the border wall. -
The investment goes toward modernizing the around 55 mile long stretch between the Lukeville-Sonoyta border crossing into Arizona and Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point. -
Mexico’s environmental protection agency is cleaning up more than 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid that spilled when a tractor trailer overturned on a highway not far from the Arizona border.
