Sheinbaum Rejects US Strikes on Mexico in Latest Call With Trump

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum once again ruled out US strikes on Mexican territory in a phone call with Donald Trump, a week after his military seized Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.

Shortly after elite US forces captured Maduro, Trump again hinted at the possibility of unilateral action to target the Mexican cartels that traffic drugs across the two nations’ shared border, especially the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.

“We continue to collaborate and coordinate without the need for intervention from the United States,” Sheinbaum told reporters on Monday.

“We operate in Mexico,” she said. “No one else does.”

US President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum.

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