Written in EU he 4/5/2025 · 19:13 hs
EFE.- The US President, Donald Trump, said Sunday that his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, He has “so much fear” of drug trafficking cartels that “cannot think clearly”, after confirming that the president denied the entry of the army of the United States to help in the fight of these groups.
Trump admitted to the press he was traveling with him on the presidential plane that he recently proposed to Sheinbaum to allow the Entrance to Mexico to the soldiers to fight drug trafficking posters.
“If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, 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,” insisted the US president, who described the Mexican president as “a lovely woman.”
Trump said the cartels are “trying to destroy” the United States by traffic with drugs and immigrants. “They are horrible people (the posters) who have been killing people right and left and have made a fortune selling drugs.”
The comments of the president of the United States took a day after the Mexican president told a press conference that there were rejected Trump’s offer.
“And they know what I said? No, President Trump. The territory is inviolable, Sovereignty is inviolable, Sovereignty is not sold (…) It is not necessary, you can collaborate, we can work together, but you in your territory, in ours we can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the United States Army in our territory, “said the Mexican president in an act on the outskirts of the capital.
The issue once again occupied headlines, after the newspaper The Wall Street Journal He published last Friday that Trump was pressing the Mexican president to allow a greater military participation of Washington in the fight against drug cartels.
In its second term, Trump has increased Washington’s pressure About security in Mexicoimposing tariffs in search of more measures against the posters.
Mexico, in response, deployed 10,000 National Guard agents on the common border to reduce irregular migration flow and drug trafficking, especially fentanyl.
Trump also included in the official terrorism list six drug groups in Mexico: the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), that of Sinaloa, of the Gulf, from the Northwest, the Michoacan family and the United posters.
