US President Donald Trump said this Sunday that his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, is “so afraid” of drug cartels that she “can’t think straight,” after confirming that the president denied the US Army entry to help combat these groups.
Trump admitted to the press while traveling with him on Air Force One that he recently proposed to Sheinbaum that she allow soldiers into Mexico to combat drug cartels.
If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, it would be an honor for us to go and help her. I told her (Sheinbaum) that. “It would be an honor for me to go and do it,” insisted the US president, who called the Mexican president “a lovely woman.”
Trump asserted that the cartels are “trying to destroy” the United States by trafficking drugs and immigrants. “They are horrible people (the cartels) who have been killing people left and right and have made a fortune selling drugs.”
The US president’s comments came one day after the Mexican president said in a press conference that she had rejected Trump’s offer.
And you know what I told him? No, President Trump. Territory is inviolable, sovereignty is inviolable, sovereignty is not for sale (…) It’s not necessary, we can collaborate, we can work together, but you on your territory, we on ours can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the United States Army on our territory,” the Mexican president emphasized at an event outside the capital.
The issue made headlines again after The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that Trump was pressuring the Mexican president to allow greater US military involvement in the fight against drug cartels.
During his second term, Trump has increased Washington’s pressure on security in Mexico, imposing tariffs in an effort to further crackdown on cartels.
Mexico, in response, deployed 10,000 National Guard troops to its shared border to reduce the flow of irregular migration and drug trafficking, especially fentanyl.
Trump also included six Mexican drug trafficking groups on the official terrorism list: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), the Sinaloa Cartel, the Gulf Cartel, the Northwest Cartel, the Familia Michoacana, and the United Cartels.
Source: radioformula
