Sheinbaum rejects US ‘invasion’ after Trump orders military to target Mexico cartels | Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, rejected the idea that Donald Trump authorizes the use of military force aimed at the use of military force aimed at drug cartels considered as terrorist organizations in Latin American countries.
“The United States will not come to Mexico with his armies,” he said at a daily press conference on Friday. “We cooperate, we cooperate, but there will be no invasion. Outside the table, absolutely outside the table.”
Mexican President said that the government was informed about the executive order, but “Any army or any institution has nothing to do with the participation of our region. There is no risk of invading our region.”
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that after publishing a statement that the US Embassy in Mexico would use from drug smuggling groups to both countries to protect our peoples ”,“ US military forces will not accept the participation of our lands ”.
The news of Trump’s secret directive to the Pentagon was first reported By New York Times, This referred to people who knew the subject and said that the order provided an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations against cartels in sea and foreign land ”.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said the movement would allow the US government to use the army to target trade organizations.
Rubio, now allows us to target what they operate and use the other elements of American power, intelligence organizations, the Ministry of Defense, anyway… To target these groups if the opportunity to do this, ”he said.
“We must start to treat them as not only drug trafficking organizations, but as armed terrorist organizations.”
After Latin American drug trafficking organizations, Trump made the most important priority of his administration: In February, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has identified seven organized crime groups in Mexico as foreign terrorist organizations, including five powerful cartel.
Then the White House claimed these groups With activities such as olma infiltration to foreign governments in the Western Hemisphere ”, he created a ün a national security threat imposed by traditional organized crime”.
Since US agencies have a number of vehicles to target the transnational organized crime groups by restricting their members’ travel or business capabilities, it is not clear how much this assignment has.
However, the appointment will expand the width of potential goals to include everyone who provides “financial support ına to the cartels.
Trump Management Thousands of deployed In addition to active service war troops, drones and spy planes, especially up to the southwest US border to stop Fentanil, North-West flow and the flow of immigrants.
This last order will represent a deep and unprecedented rise of tactics in Latin America by the US government and potentially open the door of unilateral American military attacks in the region.
Jack Riley, former assistant director of the drug application agency, who helped the arrest of Guzmán, Joaquín of drug king Joaquín, welcomed the directive of the Trump administration, a defender of identifying cartels as terrorist organizations.
“This is the next logical step for me, Riley Riley said. “Probably paves ways to educate our colleagues and openly educate additional finances and put some teeth in federal institutions operating abroad.”
Nevertheless, Riley said that Trump’s order could face obstacles at home before the troops even set foot abroad.
“You will probably have some legal difficulties in the USA without the approval of congress,” he said. But it doesn’t seem to bother him.
However, in Mexico, security analysts were afraid that the movement would not only be ineffective in eliminating drug trafficking groups, but also destroying the US-Mexican relations.
“This is not a pleasant development,” said Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, President of the North American Observatory in global attempt against transnational organized crimes. “And beyond the narratives, it seems to me that once again the wrong diagnosis of these illegal markets and how we can weaken and dismantle them.”
The news comes with Mexico in a delicate time with Mexico with a new security agreement that Sheinbaum says he is close to signing, as well as negotiating a tariff agreement with the Trump administration.
Mexico and the United States closely collaborated on security, including the Mérida initiative under former president Felipe Calderón. But even then, Farfán-Méndez was seen as a red line with US boots on the ground. This new movement of the Trump administration will potentially exceed this line with destructive effects on the relationship of countries.
“Mexico would have serious consequences that would stop cooperating,” he said. “This is me Mexico ‘What is the encouragement of cooperating with you?
