Trump suggests using US troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels

Mexico city – The Mexican leader said on Saturday that she rejected President Trump's offer to send us troops to her country to combat drug cartels.

At a public event, President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed a report that was published on Friday in Wall Street Journal, whereby Trump put pressure on Mexico to enable more US military stake in the drug war.

“It's true,” said Sheinbaum. She said that Trump calls for some private calls with the American guide in the past few months: “How can we help you to combat drug trafficking? I suggest that the US Army occurs to help you.”

Sheinbaum said that she rejected his proposal and said: “No, President Trump, our territory is inalienable, the sovereignty is inalienable. We can work together, we can work together, but with you in your territory and us. We can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the US Army in our field.”

The White House did not immediately answer a request for comments on Sheinbaum's account.

Since Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has exceeded the CIA surveillance flights via Mexico, named drug -like cartels as “foreign terrorists” groups and has repeatedly recorded the opportunity to use troops there to combat organized crime. He massaged US troops on the north side of the US border to Mexico in order to act against non -authorized immigration and drug smuggling.

Mexico is “essentially managed by the cartels,” said Trump at the beginning of this year and insisted that the United States should “wage war against them”.

No administration in modern times has pursued such a militaristic approach to Mexico, a US ally that Trump blames the guilt for the production of the fentanyl, which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Trump's attitude increases in the latest US policy in which the prevention of the rule of law in Mexico has been emphasized, and contradicts Mexico's security strategy, which has derived from the type of violent antitrust confrontations that drove the record levels of blood casting.

Trump's fixation on organized crimes in Mexico brought Sheinbaum into a difficult position. She tried to appease him to try to avert the potentially catastrophic tariffs that he threatened, unless Mexico reduces the fentanyling trade. She sent thousands of troops of the National Guard to strengthen the northern border and transfers dozens of suspected anti -anti

But she also had to show other Mexicans that she defends national sovereignty. Nationalism has increased here since Trump took office in January.

On Tikkok, the users asked for a boycott of American products and film themselves in the drain. Companies have accepted the red, green and white of the Mexican flag in advertising campaigns.

Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in Mexico city and Michael Wilner in Washington contributed to this report.