About Sheinbaum’s call with Trump this week: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

Much of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Wednesday greeting property league was taken up by the presumption and treatment of the national government’s electoral betterment proposal, which volition beryllium submitted to Congress adjacent week. (Read MND’s study here.)

During her Q&A league with reporters, Sheinbaum revealed that she spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump the time aft Jalisco New Generation Cartel person Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes was fatally wounded during a subject cognition successful Jalisco.

She besides acknowledged that high-ranking Mexican and U.S. officials held a information gathering astatine the National Palace connected Tuesday.

Sheinbaum reveals she spoke to Trump aft cognition targeting ‘El Mencho’

Sheinbaum said that Trump called her connected Monday to inquire her, “‘What’s happening successful Mexico? How are things? Are you OK?'”

She said that the telephone — which took spot the time aft the decease of “El Mencho” triggered a convulsive cartel absorption crossed 20 states — lasted 8 minutes.

Sheinbaum said she spoke to Trump astir the cognition targeting “El Mencho” and mentioned to him that Mexico received quality from the U.S. authorities that assisted it.

She besides said she told the U.S. president that bilateral information coordination is going “very well.”

“… That’s however it was, the abbreviated call, to spot however things were successful Mexico,” Sheinbaum said.

📞La presidenta @Claudiashein informó que anteayer sostuvo una llamada telefónica con Donald Trump en la que preguntó por la situación del país.

La mandataria dio a conocer que por el momento nary contempla una reunión con el republicano. pic.twitter.com/s2DiGYbdAB

— Animal Político (@Pajaropolitico) February 25, 2026

She said that she and Trump presently person nary program for a bilateral, in-person meeting.

The cognition against Oseguera successful an exclusive residential property successful Tapalpa, Jalisco, connected Sunday came arsenic the Trump medication continues to unit Mexico to bash much to combat cartels and the narcotics they postulation to the United States.

“Mexico indispensable measurement up their effort connected Cartels and Drugs!” Trump wrote connected societal media the time aft “El Mencho” was killed.

During his State of the Union code connected Tuesday night, helium appeared to play up the United States relation successful the cognition against Oseguera, saying “we’ve besides taken down 1 of the astir sinister cartel kingpins of each — you saw that yesterday.”

On Tuesday, National Action Party (PAN) Senator Lilly Téllez claimed that U.S. unit connected Mexico was the information for the cognition targeting Oseguera, who was wanted successful some Mexico and the United States.

“I regret that Sheinbaum took enactment against ‘El Mencho’ solely due to the fact that of unit from the U.S. government. Across each of Mexico, we cognize that this cognition was carried retired due to the fact that the U.S. authorities was exerting unit and pointing retired that cartels regularisation Mexico,” she said successful the Senate.

“Sheinbaum was forced to bash thing due to the fact that she could nary longer withstand the pressure. It’s a shame that Sheinbaum doesn’t enactment retired of conviction,” Téllez said.

The PAN legislator is successful favour of the U.S. subject coming into Mexico to combat cartels, and has asserted that “the cartels are partners of Morena,” the enactment that was founded by erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and which Sheinbaum represented successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Last year, Sheinbaum rejected an connection from Trump to nonstop the U.S. Army into Mexico to combat cartels.

The US ambassador and cause czar met with Mexican officials 

Sheinbaum noted that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ron Johnson and Sara Carter, manager of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), met with members of the national government’s information furniture connected Tuesday.

“It was a affable meeting,” she said, adding that it was not organized “recently,” but had been planned for immoderate time.

Productive gathering with @ONDCP Director @SaraCarterDC and @GobiernoMX officials to beforehand the historical practice led by @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and President @Claudiashein. We are moving unneurotic to halt the scourge of fentanyl and dismantle the networks that poison our… https://t.co/ZsvahLAV5m pic.twitter.com/RQ3s3bZ32F

— Embajador Ronald Johnson (@USAmbMex) February 25, 2026

The gathering was held arsenic portion of the information “understanding” Mexico has with the United States,” Sheinbaum said.

The president, who said she didn’t be the meeting, acknowledged that Carter congratulated the Mexican authorities for the cognition against “El Mencho.”

“That’s what they told maine this morning,” she said, referring to members of the information cabinet.

The furniture — which includes Mexico’s subject leaders, the information and interior ministers and the national lawyer wide — said connected societal media that the “high-level meeting” was “very productive.”

The furniture said that Mexico and the U.S. reaffirmed their committedness to “bilateral collaboration for the payment of our nations wrong a model of respect for sovereignty and practice based connected communal trust.”

Johnson said connected societal media that the U.S. and Mexico are “working unneurotic to halt the scourge of fentanyl and dismantle the networks that poison our communities.”

The ONDCP said that Carter and Johnson “met with Mexican subject and information enactment to commend them connected the palmy cognition targeting Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes.”

“‘El Mencho’ led Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), a Foreign Terrorist Organization liable for trafficking illicit drugs into the United States and threatening our nationalist security. President Trump is delivering connected his committedness to fortify our nationalist information and prevention American lives!” Carter’s bureau added successful a societal media post.