Trump's proposal rejected. What did the Mexico propose?

The President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum rejected the US President Donald Trump's proposal regarding the sending of US troops to the country that would fight drug cartels. She passed her answer on Saturday during a public speech.

Claudia Sheinbaum explained that in a telephone conversation Donald Trump suggested that the American forces would support the Mexican authorities in the fight against cartels. – I replied: 'No, Mr. President, you cannot violate the sovereignty of the territory (Mexico), (…) we will never accept the presence of the American army in our territory. “” – she added.

“Wall Street Journal” previously reported that Trump's administration had pressure on Mexico so that the government there would agree to send strength USA.

Sheinbaum also reported that she had offered Trump cooperation and exchange of information, and at the same time asked Washington to put an end to the smuggling of weapons, which is used in Mexico by “soldiers” of cartels.

Military operations “will not solve anything”

AFP reminds that in a wave of violence for almost 20 years, behind which drug gangs are standing, over 450,000 died in Mexico. people.

At the beginning of April, NBC News said that Trump's administration is considering conducting drone attacks on cartels in Mexico as part of combating drug smuggling through the southern border.

Sheinbaum said then that she categorically rejects all unilateral actions of the US Army in Mexico, and such military operations would “not solve anything”. However, NBC News said that the White House did not rule out unilateral operations of the USA, without the consent of the Mexican government.

For now, with the consent of the Mexican authorities, the US Army i Wagon have significantly increased the number of observation flights over Mexico to collect intelligence information about drug cartels, which the White House considered a threat to national security.