Senators in Mexico come to blows after the heated debate on US military intervention against drug cartels

The Mexican senators arrived at the blows on Wednesday after a heated debate about the alleged opposition that the United States intervene militarily against drug cartels.

The legislator Alejandro Moreno, leader of the PRI party of the opposition, went to the podium when he finished Wednesday’s session and faced with angry the president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández Norona, of the ruling party Morena, for not receiving the floor.

Moreno can be seen in a video posted on social networks by the Senate of Mexico pushing Fernández Norona several times, hitting him on the neck and pushing another man to the ground when he tried to intervene.

The fight followed a heated debate during which the PRI and the PAN of the opposition were accused of requesting an US military intervention, an affirmation that both parties deny.

Norona later said that he would file a complaint against Moreno for bodily damage and request that his legislative immunity be revoked.

“The debate could be very hard, very bitter, very strong … today when (opposition legislators) are exposed for their betrayal, they lose their heads because they were exposed,” he said.

Moreno accused Norona of starting the attack, saying on the social media platform X: “He was the one who began the attack; he did it because he could not silence us with arguments.”

“The first physical aggression came from Norona,” Moreno wrote in X. “He launched the first push and did it out of cowardice.”

Both senators are involved in separate controversies.

Moreno faces possible political trial procedures for alleged corruption during his term as governor of the state of Campeche from 2015 to 2019.

Norona has been criticized for reports that she has a expensive house at a time when Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has urged public officials to live modestly.

Trump aimed at Latin American drug cartels

President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon To use military force Against Latin American drug cartels considered terrorist organizations, a source familiar with the confirmed issue to News themezone earlier this month. It is not clear if the military could take measures or when.

For its part, Mexico emphasized that “it would not accept the participation of US military forces in our territory.” Earl this month, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum insisted that there would be no “invasion of Mexico.”

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 at the beginning of this month that the administration could use the designations to “direct” 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.”

Venezuela on Tuesday War ships deployed and drones to patrol the country’s coast after the United States He sent three destroyers to the region to stop drug trafficking.

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