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( Spanish) – “It’s not going to happen.” The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, was blunt this Tuesday when ruling out the possibility of a military invasion by the United States of Mexico to combat the drug cartels. This is how the president responded to a journalist who asked her if, as supreme head of the Armed Forces, she believed that the Army was prepared for any type of invasion. On the contrary, Sheinbaum assured that “there will be a good relationship with President Trump.”
Sheinbaum called on Mexicans not to have that scenario in mind, but it is not the first time in recent days that he has referred to the question of a hypothetical soft invasion. This Monday Sheinbaum also addressed the issue: “Of course we do not agree on an invasion, a presence of this type. Even with President López Obrador there was much more control of the presence of US agencies in our country, which will be maintained.” Previously, Sheinbaum had described the reports on the matter as “quite a movie,” emphasizing that Mexico was always going to defend its sovereignty. “Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign country, and that is above everything.”
During his first term, Trump considered possibilities that a priori They look crazy. Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, now a analyst and commentator, revealed in his book “A Sacred Oath,” that Trump had asked him in 2020 to launch missiles against Mexico to destroy drug laboratories. Esper claims he told him “we could just fire some Patriot missiles and destroy the labs, quietly. “No one would know it was us.”
In an interview in July with Fox News, Trump stated that the cartels control Mexican territory and that the government is petrified by them. The then-presidential candidate did not hesitate to affirm that attacks against cartels were absolutely still on the table because fentanyl and overdose deaths continue to plague the United States. Sheinbaum rejected these statements and assured that Mexico has made progress in reducing insecurity.
In October, Trump once again referred to the possibility of a military operation in Mexico in an interview with the cable channel NewsNation as the best option to respond to the action of the Mexican cartels whom the DEA accuses of being at the heart of the drug crisis in the United States. According to the agency, the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels are the main suppliers of cocaine and heroin to US markets and fentanyl manufactured by Mexican cartels is the main cause of the current epidemic of drug poisoning deaths in the United States.
During the campaign, Trump declared war on the cartels and promised to put an end to them. “When I return to the White House, the drug lords and cruel traffickers will never sleep peacefully again,” he assured, and to this end he proposed in his campaign platform a plan around seven major actions:
- Restore all border policies from his first term and ensure border security.
- Deploy all necessary military assets, including the Navy, against the cartels.
- Order the Department of Defense to use special forces, cyber warfare, covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage possible on cartel leaders, infrastructure and operations.
- Designate major drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
- Block cartels’ access to the global financial system.
- Obtain full cooperation with neighboring governments to dismantle cartels and otherwise expose the bribery and corruption that protects those criminal networks.
- Ask Congress to ensure that traffickers can be sentenced to the death penalty.
For Trump, the cartels are waging a war against the United States and now is the time for the United States to wage a war against the cartels.
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