No question that Donald Trump sends his army to Mexico to fight against drug cartels. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday that she had rejected her American counterpart with somewhat expansionist aims.
In a speech referring to the information of the Wall Street Journal according to which the American president had put pressure on her so that Mexico accepts the presence of American soldiers on his territory. The New York daily reported on Friday that tension rose a notch in mid-April to the end during a 45-minute telephone interview between the two leaders.
“It is true (…), but not as they say,” said the leader, explaining that during this call, Donald Trump asked him how he could help him fight against organized crime and had proposed to send the army. “I said to him: No, President Trump, the territory (from Mexico) is inviolable, sovereignty is inviolable (…), we will never accept the presence of the American army on our territory. »
She explained that she had proposed to the American president to collaborate and share information.
She asks Trump to fight against arms trafficking
Claudia Sheinbaum, however, asked Donald Trump to end the trafficking of weapons that feeds criminal gangs, one of the causes of a wave of violence that has been going on for almost twenty years and has made more than 450,000 victims. “Yesterday (Friday), the (American) president gave an order so that everything was done to prevent weapons from entering our country from the United States,” she said.
“It is important to always have a cold head and to stick to the signed decrees, beyond the speech,” said the leftist president on the day of the 47th President of the United States. She had estimated that the first migratory measures of taken immediately by Donald Trump were similar to those of his first mandate.
