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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Mexico will start delivering water it owes the United States this week. -
Governors from several of Mexico’s states, including Sonora, met in Mexico City for a security meeting to approve the new law. -
The plan does not make vape use in the country illegal, but does crack down on distributors and producers. -
The proposed import fees come as the United States pressures Mexico to become less economically reliant on China. -
That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
