MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday downplayed the likelihood of US military action against cartels on Mexican soil, following a report that Washington is considering deploying troops south of the border.
“That won’t happen,” Sheinbaum told reporters in response to an NBC News report that President Donald Trump’s administration is planning ground operations against her country’s powerful cartels.
“Furthermore, we do not agree” with any intervention, the left-wing Sheinbaum added.
Trump has accused Mexico of not doing enough to halt the flow of drugs into the United States.
In addition to designating several Mexican cartels as “terrorist” organizations, he offered in April to send troops to Mexico to fight drug cartels, a proposal that Sheinbaum rejected.
