The President of Mexico warns us against the invasion to fight the cartel

President Claudia Shinbom warned on Thursday after Washington settled Mexico that Mexico would never tolerate the invasion of its national sovereignty by the United States. Drug gangs As terrorist organizations.

“This cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” she said. “With Mexico, it is cooperation and coordination, and it is never subordinate or interference, and even a lower invasion.”

On Wednesday, the Trump administration is officially Named eight cartals As terrorist groups. Among them are two main drug trafficking organizations, The new Gallisco generation and They will receive Cartes.

Mr. Trump The executive order signed On his first day at the White House, saying that the cartals “pose a threat to national security to the further that the traditional organized crime poses.”

The move sparked speculation about possible military action.

Technology billionaire, Elon Musk, who got a Prominent In the Trump administration, He said on social media The appointment “means that they are qualified for drone strikes.”

However, experts said that the bombing of Mexican cartals or the transmission of border forces is still unlikely, although the inability to predict Mr. Trump makes it impossible to completely exclude him.

Cecilia Farvan Mendes, an analyst at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, said.

In 2022, former Minister of Defense Mark Esber He said “60 minutes” During his first term, President Trump suggested firing missiles at Mexico to combat drug gangs there. Esber also said when he retracted the idea, Mr. Trump said: “Nobody knows he was us.”

Mexico targets us weapons manufacturers

Shinbom said on Thursday that Mexico will continue its promise to expand its legal work Against the United States weapons manufacturers After Washington’s decision to appoint the cartals as terrorist groups.

The Mexican government accuses the arms makers of neglecting to sell weapons that end in the hands of drug dealers, and Shinbom said that the lawsuit could lead to a new charge related to alleged collusion with terrorist groups.

It ranges from 200,000 to half a million American firearms that are smuggled to Mexico every year, I mentioned “60 minutes” In December.

2023 CBS reports The investigation found that dozens of weapons cartele networks, such as terrorist cells, and pushing the Americans to buy weapons from weapons and online merchants across the country, in the far north such as Wisconsin and even Alaska, according to US intelligence sources. Then firearms are shipped across the southwestern border through a series of brokers and pursers.

Mexico has already it has litigate In the United States against weapons manufacturers and sellers in the United States, they are calling for $ 10 billion as compensation for their alleged role in criminal violence in the country.

Earlier this month, sheinbauum angrily The United States rejected an accusation Her government has an alliance with drug gangs.

“We categorically reject the White House slander against the Mexican government about alliances with criminal organizations,” the president Books on social media at that time.

“If there is such an alliance anywhere, it is American arms stores that sell high -energy weapons for these criminal groups.”

Last month, Sheinbaum launched a campaign to eliminate the number of weapons in the streets of the country by Provide money For those who leave unidentified weapons in dedicated decline locations, including churches.