Dispute amongst neighbors: Trump desires to ship troopers to Mexico – President reacts outraged | EUROtoday

Mexico’s chief of state Claudia Sheinbaum has mentioned that US President Donald Trump rejected a suggestion from US President Donald Trump to the neighboring nation within the battle towards drug trafficking. “I told him: No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not available,” mentioned Sheinbaum on Saturday at a public occasion. She referred to a lately revealed report by the “Wall Street Journal”, during which there was discuss of a tense alternate between the 2 heads of state.

During her latest cellphone name, Trump requested her tips on how to assist fight organized crime, Sheinbaum mentioned. Among different issues, he proposed the posting of troopers. However, she rejected this and instructed him that “we will never accept the presence of the US Army on our territory”.

She provided Trump a collaboration, amongst different issues via an elevated alternate of knowledge, Sheinbaum added. In addition, she pushed Trump to cease the unlawful arms commerce in Mexico.

Mexico has been affected by the violent drug cartels for a few years. Since the beginning of a controversial army operation to battle medicine in 2006, virtually 450,000 murders have been registered within the Latin American nation. According to official info, a big a part of the weapons from the United States utilized by prison teams in Mexico got here.

Trump mentioned in an interview with the conservative journal “The Blaze” final week that he had provided the Mexican authorities to assist her within the battle towards the drug cartels – however was rejected. Without additional particulars, Trump mentioned within the media dialogue: “You could say that at some point something may have to happen. It cannot go on as it is.”

Trump accuses the Mexican authorities to not take sufficient for unlawful migration and drug smuggling to the USA. Most lately, he had elevated the strain on Mexico, amongst different issues with the announcement of customs surcharges. At the start of March, he additionally irritated the southern neighboring nation with the assertion that it was “completely dominated by criminal cartels, the murders, rape, torture and total control” and represented “a serious threat to the USA national security”.