Mexico never tolerates invading into its national sovereignty, President Claudia Sheinbaum warned on Thursday after Washington appointed Mexicans Medicinal carts as terrorist organizations.
“It cannot be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty,” she said. “With Mexico, this cooperation and coordination, never obey both interference and even less invasion.”
Trump administration officially on Wednesday Specified eight cartels as terrorist groups. These include two major drug trading organizations in Mexico, Jalisz new generation and Synalogo Cartels.
Mr. Trump signed the executive order On their first day ago, the White House said that cartels “are a threat to national security, which goes beyond traditional organized crime.”
This step caused assumptions about possible hostilities.
Technical Millder Elon Musk, who was given a bright role In the Trump administration, said on social networks The designation “means that they are eligible for drones.”
Experts, however, stated that the bombing of Mexican cartels or sending troops across the border still looked unlikely, although Mr. Trump's unpredictability does not completely exclude.
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The idea “earlier was something that was found in a niche, very at the border, and now it is at the center of the discussion,” said Cecilia Parphan-Medes, analyst at the University of California and cooperation.
In 2022 former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said “60 minutes” The fact that during his first term, President Trump suggested dismissing Mexico rockets to combat drugs. Esper also said that when he pushed away from the idea, Mr. Trump said, “Nobody knows what we are.”
Mexico aimed at USA weapons manufacturers
Sheinbaum also stated on Thursday that Mexico would fulfill his promise to expand her legal actions Against US weapons manufacturers Following Washington's decision to appoint cartels as terrorist groups.
The Mexico government accuses US weapons manufacturers of negligence on the sale of weapons, which is in the hands of drug traders, and Shanebaum said the lawsuit could lead to a new charge of allegedly complicity with terrorist groups.
It is estimated by 200,000 to half a million US firefighters every year smuggling in Mexico, “60 minutes” reports In December.
A 2023 CBS reports The study found that dozens of cartel networks that work like terrorist cells pay Americans to buy weapons in weapons and internet dilers across the country, up to the north, like Wisconsin and even Alaska, US intelligence sources reported. Then the firearm departs across the south -western border across a chain of brokers and couriers.
Mexico already has filed a lawsuit In the United States against US weapons and sellers, it said that $ 10 billion in losses for their allegedly role in criminal violence in the country.
Previously this month Sheinbaum angrily dismissed the charges in the US that its government has an alliance with drug cartels.
“We categorically defamate slander, made by the White House against the Mexican Government about alliances with criminal organizations,” the president wrote in social media At the time.
“If there is such an alliance anywhere, then in American weapons shops sell powerful weapons to these criminal groups,” she added.
Last month, Sheinbaum launched a crack company on the streets of the country Offering cash Those who leave the weapons in the designated places, including churches.