Mexico President: US Must Not Launch Invasion Over Cartels

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum warned the Trump administration on Thursday that her country will not tolerate an invasion of its national sovereignty to target drug cartels.

“This cannot be an opportunity for the U.S. to invade our sovereignty,” Sheinbaum said in response to the Trump administration’s formal designation of eight cartels as terrorist organizations, CBS News reported. “With Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”

Mexico’s two main drug cartels, Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa, were included in the terrorist declaration.

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