Sheinbaum rules out US military action in Mexico after Trump call

After speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum erstwhile again asserted that a U.S subject involution against cause cartels successful Mexico won’t happen.

The telephone betwixt the 2 leaders took spot 4 days aft Trump said that the United States was “going to commencement present hitting land, with respect to the cartels,” a remark that accrued expectations that a U.S. subject onslaught connected a cartel people successful Mexico would occur.

Asked astatine her greeting property league whether a U.S. “military action” successful Mexico could beryllium “ruled out” pursuing her telephone with Trump, Sheinbaum responded “yes.”

She said that Trump told her that the United States could supply further assistance to combat cartels if Mexico requested specified help.

“We told him, ‘so acold we’re doing precise good [so] it’s not necessary,'” said Sheinbaum, who has antecedently declined offers from Trump to nonstop the U.S. subject into Mexico.

“In addition, determination is Mexico’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” she said, adding that Trump “understood” her position.

“It was a precise affable conversation,” said Sheinbaum, who has consistently maintained that the United States won’t marque a unilateral onslaught connected cartels successful Mexico and attributed Trump’s remarks to the contrary to his unsocial “way of communicating.”

The president said that she spoke to her U.S. counterpart astir the “very important results” Mexico has achieved successful the combat against organized crime.

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She said she told Trump astir the 40% simplification successful homicides (in December compared to the last period of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency), the disbandment of clandestine cause laboratories and the thousands of organized-crime related arrests that person been made during her administration.

Sheinbaum besides said that they spoke astir the simplification successful the trafficking of fentanyl from Mexico to the United States — arsenic indicated by a simplification successful fentanyl seizures by U.S. authorities astatine the borderline — and the diminution successful overdose deaths successful the U.S.

She said that Trump acknowledged Mexico’s information efforts, but told her that much tin beryllium done.

“I said, ‘Yes so we tin bash a batch more, but we’re working, and the important happening is to support this narration of respect and collaboration,'” Sheinbaum said.

“… In the end, we said we’re going to proceed collaborating,” she said, noting that a bilateral information gathering volition instrumentality spot aboriginal this month.

Before her greeting property league — which started astatine the aboriginal clip of 9 a.m. — Sheinbaum wrote connected societal media that she had had a “very bully conversation” with Trump.

“We spoke astir antithetic issues, including information with respect for our sovereignties, the simplification of cause trafficking, commercialized and investments. Collaboration and practice wrong a model of communal respect ever output results,” she wrote.

The president was accompanied during the telephone by Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Deputy Foreign Minister for North America Roberto Velasco and Security Minister Omar García Harfuch.

De la Fuente spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Sunday aft Sheinbaum requested that helium marque “direct contact” with the U.S. authoritative successful airy of Trump’s declarations that the U.S. would deed cartels connected onshore and that “the cartels are moving Mexico.”

The U.S. State Department said that Rubio spoke with de la Fuente “to sermon the request for stronger practice to dismantle Mexico’s convulsive narcoterrorist networks and halt the trafficking of fentanyl and weapons.”

“Secretary Rubio reaffirmed the United States’ committedness to stopping narcoterrorism and stressed the request for tangible results to support our homeland and hemisphere,” said a connection issued by the State Department’s Office of the Spokesperson.

Leaders sermon Mexico’s presumption connected Venezuela

During what she said was a 15-minute telephone conversation, Sheinbaum said that Trump asked her what her presumption was with respect to the United States’ involution successful Venezuela and seizure of the South American nation’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

She said she told him that her presumption was the aforesaid arsenic Mexico’s “public position,” which is 1 of condemnation of the United States’ actions.

Sheinbaum said that she explained to Trump that successful accordance with Mexico’s constitution, the Mexican authorities is opposed to “military interventions.”

“He said, ‘OK, I recognize that’s your constitution,’ and fundamentally that was the speech astir the contented of Venezuela,” she said.

With reports from Reforma, Milenio and El Universal