The American president asserts himself after the Mexican chief said that the sovereignty of his country “not for sale”.
The United States President Donald Trump said that Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum refused an offer to send American troops to the Latin American country because of his fear of drug cartels.
Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had suggested sending American troops to Mexico to combat drug trafficking, one day after Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said that the sovereignty of his country was “not for sale”.
“If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to enter.
“I would be honored to enter and do it. Cartels are trying to destroy our country. ”
When asked if he was disappointed with Sheinbaum’s decision, Trump said she had refused the offer because she is “so afraid of cartels, she couldn’t walk”.
“I think she is a charming woman. The president of Mexico is a charming woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she cannot even think directly,” said Trump without proposing proofs in support of her complaint.
On Saturday, Sheinbaum told a public event that she had told the American president that Mexico would never accept the presence of American troops on its territory.
“I told him, no, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,” she said.
Sheinbaum made his comments after the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reported that the Trump administration was pressure on his government to allow “a more in -depth American military involvement” in the fight against Mexican drug cartels.
Trump has often accused Mexico not to do enough to stop the fentanyl flow and other illicit drugs through the South American border.
In one of the first salvas of his great trade war, Trump in February announced that he would impose 25% prices on the band in Mexico and Canada on what he said to be their inability to repress the influx of drugs and undocumented migrants.
Trump later announced that he would suspend the prices on goods under the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, the three-tradeshell for three administration negotiated to succeed the North American free trade agreement.
