(Mexico) Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday in a speech that she had rejected her American counterpart Donald Trump to send her army to Mexico to fight drug cartels.
Posted at 2:26 p.m.
Updated at 2:34 p.m.
During a public event, Mme Sheinbaum has referred to the information of Wall Street Journal According to which the American president had put pressure on her so that Mexico accepts the presence of American soldiers on his territory.
” It’s true […]but not as they say, ”said Mr.me 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 [du Mexique] 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.
Mme Sheinbaum, however, asked Trump to put an end to the trafficking of weapons that feeds criminal gangs, one of the causes of a wave of violence that has lasted for almost twenty years and has made more than 450,000 victims.
” Here [vendredi]the president [américain] gave an order so that everything is done to prevent weapons from entering our country from the United States, “she said.