Mexico

The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, insisted on Friday that there would be no “invasion of Mexico” after the reports that President Donald Trump had ordered the United States army to go to Latin American drug cartels.

“There will be no invasion of Mexico,” Sheinbaum said after the New York Times reported that Trump had secretly signed a directive that ordered the military force against the posters that his administration has declared terrorist organizations.

“They informed us that this executive order was approaching and that it had nothing to do with the participation of any military personnel or any institution in our territory,” Sheinbaum told his regular press conference in the morning.

News contacted the Pentagon to confirm the order, but has not yet received an answer.

The Times said Mr. Trump’s directive provided an official basis for military operations at sea or on foreign soil against posters. Separately, the Reuters news agency, citing documents for the application of the law, reported that the FBI is trying to add suspicious drug cartels to the terrorist surveillance list of the United States government.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly, although she does not confirm the reports, said Trump’s “priority is to protect the homeland, so he took the bold step to designate several posters and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.”

In February, the Trump Administration designated Eight drug trafficking groups as terrorist organizations. Six are Mexican, one is Venezuelan and the eighth originates in El Salvador.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said Thursday that the administration could use the designations to “point” the posters.

“It allows us to attack now what they are operating and use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever … to point to these groups if we have the opportunity to do it,” said Rubio. “We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug trafficking organizations.”

After the designations were announced in February, Sheinbaum also warned that Mexico would never tolerate an invasion from the United States.

“This cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty,” he said at that time. “With Mexico is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”

Two weeks ago, the Trump administration appointed another Venezuelan gang as a foreign terrorist organization, The Cartel of the Suns, which has sent hundreds of tons of narcotics to the United States for two decades.

On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice Duplicate to $ 50 million His reward on the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, whom he accuses of leading the Suns cartel.

Venezuela has denounced the accusations.

Venezuela’s Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, dismissed generosity as “the shorter smoker we have seen.”

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