President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected her proposal to send American troops to Mexico to fight drug trafficking, for fear of powerful country cartels.
These words from Donald Trump one day arise after Ms. Sheinbaum confirmed that Donald Trump had hurried to a telephone call last month to accept a more important role in the US army in the fight against drug cartels in Mexico.
Donald Trump said he was “true” that he had proposed the sending of troops to Mexico and strongly criticized Ms. Sheinbaum for rejected this idea.
“Well, she is so afraid of the cartels that she cannot walk, so you know that is the reason,” said Donald Trump to journalists on Air Force on Sunday. And I think she is a charming woman. The president of Mexico is a charming woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she does not even manage to think correctly. ”
The American military presence along the southern border with Mexico has continued to increase in recent months, following the order given by Donald Trump in January to strengthen the role of the army in the fight against migratory flow.
The northern command of the United States has deployed troops and equipment at the border, has strengthened inhabited surveillance flights to monitor fentanyl traffic along the border and asked that American special forces be more empowered to collaborate closely with Mexican forces carrying out operations against cartels.
But Ms. Sheinbaum said that the intervention of American troops in Mexico was going too far.
“He asked me, ‘How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the American army intervenes and helps you. ‘ And you know what I answered? ‘No, President Trump,’ she explained on Saturday. Sovereignty is not sold. Sovereignty is loved and defended. “
She added that she told Donald Trump that their two countries “can work together, but you on your territory and us on ours”.
In February, Donald Trump described many gangs and cartels as a “foreign terrorist organizations, bringing drugs to the United States, limiting their travel forces to fight them to fight them.
But Ms. Sheinbaum’s position – and Donald Trump’s response – suggest that American pressure in favor of unilateral military intervention could create tensions between the two leaders, after cooperation in immigration and commerce at the start of Donald Trump’s second term.
Donald Trump explained that the American army was necessary to stem the scourge of fentanyl in the United States.
“This is bad news,” added Donald Trump about cartels. If Mexico wanted help against cartels, we would be honored to intervene. I told him. I would be honored to intervene. Cartels are trying to destroy our country. ”
The White House has also linked its efforts to reduce the fentanyl flow to the price plan of Donald Trump, saying that it wishes to hold Mexico, Canada and China responsible for containing the flow of drugs to the United States.
