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MexicoOn Tuesday, a day after the US President refused to authorize US strikes against cartels on Mexican soil donald trump He said he is willing to do anything to stop drugs from entering America
“That’s not going to happen,” the Mexican president said. claudia sheinbaum Said on Tuesday.
“He (Trump) has suggested it on several occasions or he has said, ‘We offer you United States military intervention in Mexico, whatever you need to fight the criminal groups,'” he said. “But I have told them at every opportunity that we can cooperate, that they can help us with the information they have, but we operate in our own territory, that we do not accept any interference from any foreign government.”
Sheinbaum said that he had told this to Trump and the US Secretary of State. marco rubio And they have understood.
“Would I want to strike to stop drugs in Mexico? I have no objection, we have to do whatever it takes to stop drugs,” Trump said Monday. He also said he was “not happy with Mexico.”
The US Embassy in Mexico shared a video via social platform X later Monday that included Rubio’s previous comments saying the US would not take unilateral action in Mexico.
Meanwhile, Mexican and US diplomats were trying to figure out on Tuesday what the actual US incursion might be.
On Monday, people boarded a boat and arrived at a beach in northeastern Mexico and posted signs indicating the land was considered off-limits by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said late Monday that the country’s navy had removed the signals, which appeared to be in Mexican territory. And on Tuesday, Sheinbaum said the International Boundary and Water Commission, a binational agency that draws the border between the two countries, was getting involved.
The signs, planted in the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico, caused a stir when witnesses said people in a boat arrived at a local beach known as Playa Bagdad and set them up.
The signs read in English and Spanish “Warning: Restricted Area” and stated that it was Department of Defense property and had been declared restricted by the “Commander”. It states that there can be no unauthorized access, photography or pictures in the area.
The US Embassy in Mexico and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mexico contacted its Consulate and then the US Embassy in Brownsville, Texas Mexico CityEventually, Sheinbaum said, it was determined that contractors working for certain U,S, government entities had installed the signs,
“But the river changes its course, gets loose and according to the treaty you have to clearly demarcate the national border,” Sheinbaum said during his daily press briefing.
The area is close to the SpaceX Starbase, which is located near Boca Chica Beach on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
The facility and launch site are under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA for the SpaceX rocket program, which hopes to send astronauts to the Moon and someday to Mars.
In June, Sheinbaum said the government was investigating contamination from the SpaceX facility, after metal, plastic and rocket fragments were reportedly found on the Mexican side of the border after a rocket exploded during a test.
The region also reflects the added sensitivity of Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of the Americas, which Mexico has also rejected.