Sheinbaum said no at Trump’s request to send his army against cartels

Alma E. Muñoz

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La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, May 4, 2025, p. 3

Texcoco, Méx., It is true that in some of the calls we held, President Donald Trump proposed that among the United States Army to help in the fight against drug trafficking, but I said no, the territory is inviolablesaid President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. We will never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territoryhe stressed.

A day after The Wall Street Journal He published that the US president intensified his pressures on the Government of Mexico to allow the entry of his troops into national territory, with the aim of fighting drug trafficking cartels, the president said yesterday what Trump proposed.

The newspaper published that his counterpart raised – in the call they held on April 16 – that It is important that among the United States Army to Mexico to help in the fight against narco. “I mean that it is true that in some of the calls – but not as they mention it – he said: ‘What can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that among the United States army to help you.”

And do you know what I replied?the president continued before residents of the State of Mexico who went to the inauguration of the Lake Ecological Park of Texcoco, of the Benito Juárez Welfare University: No, President Trump. The territory is inviolable, sovereignty is inviolable, sovereignty is not sold; Sovereignty loves and defends itself.

He indicated that he specified: It is not necessary; You can collaborate, we can work together, but you in your territory, we in ours. We can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territory.

The attendees chanted: President, President President! Sheinbaum added that he also told his counterpart in one of the six calls that have had to “Mexico is great and his people are very brave. If he wants to help us, President Trump, help us not to enter the United States weapons to Mexico.

And notice what things are, yesterday (Friday) he ordered that there were everything necessary so that he did not enter the United States weapons to our country.

That is, Sheinbaum added, You can collaborate, you can cooperate. Collaboration, yes; cooperation, yes; Subordination, no. Always in defense of Mexico’s sovereignty.

Insisted that Mexico It is a free, independent and sovereign country And he promised to continue defending him.

Later, in San Salvador Atenco, the president stressed that, for the first time, the economy of Mexico grew, while that of the United States had a decrease of 0.3 percent. That had never happened.

Before, When the economic activity of the United States decreased, that of Mexico was the same. Now it is different, because the model changed; Now the most important thing is the people of Mexicoheld.