Defense of sovereignty appeared to be a one-way street for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum as she reacted to a specific course of action to stop cartels supported by President Donald Trump.
As the commander-in-chief transitioned back into the White House following a four-year globalist intermission, negotiations to get Mexico to aid in border security from its side required economic leverage via tariffs.
Now, after a series of successful strikes aiding in the dramatic decrease in drug trafficking out at sea, Trump’s willingness to take the fight to the cartels found Sheinbaum asserting, “It’s not going to happen.”
The remark, reported by the Associated Press, came during the Mexican official’s Tuesday press conference, where she reminded that the president had repeatedly proposed using U.S. military intervention to cripple cartels that have been designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
“He has suggested it on various occasions, or he has said, ‘we offer you a United States military intervention in Mexico, whatever you need to fight the criminal groups,'” stated Sheinbaum, who went on to add, “But I have told him on every occasion that we can collaborate, that they can help us with information they have, but that we operate in our territory, that we do not accept any intervention by a foreign government.”
Tuesday’s affirmation of Mexican sovereignty came following comments by the president made Monday in the Oval Office, where he responded to a question, “Would I want strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s okay with me; whatever we have to do to stop drugs.”
.@POTUS: “We have lost hundreds of thousands of people a year… and much of it comes through Mexico. So, let me just put it this way — I am NOT happy with Mexico.” pic.twitter.com/MzvJreOuEM
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 17, 2025
Trump indicated that trafficking had decreased by some 85% amid strikes on vessels off the coast suspected of carrying drugs, while he addressed the severity of the crisis impacting the United States, “We have lost hundreds of thousands of people a year, death, and that’s not talking about family destruction. That’s talking about death. And much of it comes through Mexico. So, let me just put it this way, I am not happy with Mexico.”
Prior to Sheinbaum’s response, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico shared audio of Secretary of State Marco Rubio reminding that strikes in Mexico would only happen with agreement from the nation.
Solo sucederá si lo solicitan. #SegurosJuntos pic.twitter.com/37NovnCLl4
— Embajada de EE.UU. en México (@USEmbassyMEX) November 18, 2025
Meanwhile, it was reported that diplomats from both sides of the border were trying to sort out whether or not a U.S. incursion had occurred on Monday when “men arrived in a boat at a beach in northeast Mexico and installed some signs signaling land that the U.S. Department of Defense considered restricted.”
The signs read “Warning: Restricted Area” in both English and Spanish while claiming U.S. military control of the area, as the dispute was said to have been based on “perception of the international boundary’s location.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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