MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014\u00a0Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum\u00a0said she had \u201ca very good conversation\u201d with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday and that their two governments will continue working together on security issues without the need for U.S. intervention against drug cartels.<\/p>\n
The approximately 15-minute call came after Sheinbaum said Friday she had requested dialogue with the Trump administration at the end of a week in which he had said he was ready to confront drug cartels on the ground and repeated the accusation that cartels were running Mexico.<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly offered to send the U.S. military after the cartels and Sheinbaum has always declined, but after the U.S.\u00a0removal of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, Trump\u2019s comments about Mexico,\u00a0Cuba\u00a0and\u00a0Greenland carried new weight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (Trump) asked me my opinion about what they had done in Venezuela and I told him very clearly that our constitution is very clear, that we do not agree with interventions and that was it,\u201d Sheinbaum said.<\/p>\n
Trump \u201cstill insisted that if we ask for it, they could help\u201d with military forces, which Sheinbaum said she again rejected. \u201cWe told him, so far it\u2019s going very well, it\u2019s not necessary, and furthermore there is Mexico\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity and he understood.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an interview with Fox News aired last Thursday, Trump said, \u201cWe\u2019ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water and we are going to start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico. It\u2019s very sad to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheinbaum said Monday the two leaders agreed to continue working together.<\/p>\n
Mexico\u2019s Foreign Affairs Secretary Juan Ram\u00f3n de la Fuente spoke Sunday with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio. Rubio asked for \u201ctangible results\u201d and more cooperation to dismantle the cartels, according to a statement from the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n
Sheinbaum said Mexico shared those results, including a significant drop in homicides, falling U.S. fentanyl seizures and fentanyl overdose deaths.<\/p>\n
Experts still see\u00a0U.S. intervention in Mexico\u00a0as unlikely because Mexico is doing what the U.S. asks and is a critical economic partner, but expect Trump to continue using such rhetoric to maintain pressure on Mexico to do more.<\/p>\n
Sheinbaum said the two leaders did not speak about Cuba, which Trump threatened Sunday. Mexico is an important ally of the island nation, including\u00a0selling it oil\u00a0that it will need even more desperately now that the Trump administration says it will not allow any more oil shipments from Venezuela to Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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