Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump’s offer to send the army

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday in a speech that she rejected the offer of her American counterpart Donald Trump to send her army to Mexico to fight against drug cartels.

(Keystone-ATS) During a public event, Ms. Sheinbaum referred to the information of the Wall Street Journal according to which the American president had put pressure on her so that Mexico accepts the presence of American soldiers on her territory.

“It’s true (…), but not as they say,” said Sheinbaum, explaining that during an appeal, Mr. Trump asked him how he could help him fight against organized crime and had proposed to send the army.

“I said to him: ‘No President Trump, the territory (from Mexico) is inviolable, sovereignty is inviolable (…), we will never accept the presence of the American army on our territory,” she added. She explained that she had proposed to the American president to collaborate and share information.

Ms. Sheinbaum, however, asked Mr. Trump to end the trafficking of weapons that feeds criminal gangs, one of the causes of a wave of violence that has been going on for almost twenty years and has made more than 450,000 victims.

“Yesterday (Friday), the (American) president gave an order so that everything was done to prevent weapons from entering our country from the United States,” she said.