West Palm Beach, Florida El presidente Donald Trump said Sunday that his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, rejected his proposal to send to the United States to Mexico to help stop the illegal drug trafficking Because “he is afraid” to the powerful cartels of the country.
Sheinbaum confirmed the previous day that Trump pressed her during a telephone conversation last month to accept a more important role in the US army in the fight against cartels of the drug trafficking In Mexico.
“Mexico says that I I offered to send troops from the United States ”to Mexican territory to take care of cartels,” said Trump, asked by a journalist during a conversation aboard the presidential plane. “It’s trueabsolutely ”.
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He assured that the cartels “are horrible people (the posters) that have been killing people To right and left and have made a fortune selling drugs and destroying our country. We lost 300 thousand people last year due to fentanyl and drugs. ”
He said that “if Mexico wanted help with the posters, it would be an honor for us to go and help it. I told it (Sheinbaum). It would be an honor for me to go and do it. The posters are trying to destroy our country. They are evil.”
Questioned about why Sheinbaum refused, Trump said “She is so afraid of cartels that cannot walk; That is the reason, “Trump replied.” And I think she is a lovely woman. The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of cartels that she can’t even think clearly. ”
The United States has constantly increased its military presence Throughout the border with Mexico in recent months, after Trump ordered in January that the army had a greater participation to stop the Flow of migrants.
The northern command of the United States has increased the sending of elements and equipment to the border, the number of manned flights has increased for Surveillance work with the aim of monitoring the Fentanyl traffic Throughout the border and has sought to expand its authority so that the special forces of the United States work closely with Mexican forces in operations against cartels.
But Sheinbaum said that sending US forces to operate within Mexican territory was going too far.
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Trump appointed many criminal groups and cartels that traffic drugs to the United States as “Foreign terrorist organizations”, measure with which many of their movements are restricted and makes more resources available to the security forces to go against them.
But Sheinbaum’s position and Trump’s response show that the United States pressure for a Unilateral military intervention It could create tensions between the two leaders after immigration and trade cooperation at the beginning of Trump’s second mandate.
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Trump said the United States Army is needed to stop the fentanyl plague in the United States.
“They are bad news”Trump said about the cartels. “If Mexico wanted help with cartels, it would be an honor to enter and do it. I told him. It would be an honor to enter and do it. The cartels are trying to destroy our country.”
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