Trump insists that Sheinbaum “shouldn’t have rejected” his “help” against the cartels

New York.- U.S. President Donald Trump insisted this Friday that his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, “should not have rejected” his “help” to confront the cartels in the Latin American country, referring to a possible U.S. attack against drug traffickers. “I shouldn’t have refused my help. I offered to take down the cartels in Mexico, and for some reason she doesn’t want to do it. I like her very much, but she should take down the cartels because, like it or not, they control Mexico,” the president replied to questions from the press before boarding the presidential plane Air Force One.

Trump had shared hours earlier on his Truth Social network a message from a user who pointed out that Sheinbaum has on several occasions rejected the Republican’s offer for the United States to intervene in Mexico to combat drug cartels.

Trump’s Response to Sheinbaum

The president accompanied the message with a video of a part of the press conference on March 9 in which Sheinbaum says she rejected the proposal for the US military to enter Mexican territory. We recommend reading: This Friday, at a ceremony for the delivery of the Women’s Welfare Pension in the city of Tecomán, state of Colima (west), Sheinbaum insisted that, in cooperation with the United States on security matters, national sovereignty is not up for negotiation. The debate over security cooperation between both countries intensified after the capture and death in February of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, considered one of the most wanted drug traffickers by Mexico and the United States. Furthermore, Sheinbaum was not invited to last Saturday’s Americas Shield summit in Miami, where Trump met with a dozen right-wing Latin American leaders to form a military alliance against drug trafficking.