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Mexico's President connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) ruled retired allowing U.S. strikes against cartels connected Mexican soil, a time aft U.S. President Donald Trump said helium was consenting to bash immoderate it takes to halt drugs entering the U.S.
“It's not going to happen,” Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said connected Tuesday.
“He [Trump] has suggested it connected assorted occasions oregon helium has said, we connection you a United States subject involution successful Mexico, immoderate you request to combat the transgression groups,'” she said. “But I person told him connected each juncture that we tin collaborate, that they tin assistance america with accusation they have, but that we run successful our territory, that we bash not judge immoderate involution by a overseas government.”
Ms. Sheinbaum said she had said it to Mr. Trump and to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and that they person understood.
“Would I privation strikes successful Mexico to halt drugs? OK with me, immoderate we person to bash to halt drugs,” Mr. Trump said connected Monday, adding that he's “not blessed with Mexico.”
The U.S. Embassy successful Mexico shared a video done societal level X aboriginal Monday that included erstwhile comments from Mr. Rubio saying that the U.S. would not instrumentality unilateral enactment successful Mexico.
Meanwhile, Mexican and U.S. diplomats were trying to benignant retired connected Tuesday what whitethorn person been an existent U.S. incursion.
On Monday, men arrived successful a vessel to a formation successful northeast Mexico and installed immoderate signs signalling onshore that the U.S. Department of Defence considered restricted.
Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry said precocious connected Monday that the country's Navy had removed the signs, which appeared to beryllium connected Mexican territory. And connected Tuesday, Ms. Sheinbaum said that the International Boundary and Water Commission, a binational bureau that determines the borderline betwixt the 2 countries, was getting involved.
The signs, driven into the soil adjacent wherever the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico, caused a disturbance erstwhile witnesses said men successful a vessel arrived astatine the section formation known arsenic Playa Bagdad and erected them.
The signs work successful English and Spanish “Warning: Restricted Area” and went connected to explicate that it was Department of Defence spot and had been declared restricted by “the commander.” It said determination could beryllium nary unauthorized access, photography oregon drawings of the area.
The U.S. Embassy successful Mexico and the Pentagon did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
Mexico contacted its consulate successful Brownsville, Texas and past the U.S. embassy successful Mexico City. Eventually, it was determined that contractors moving for immoderate U.S. authorities entity had placed the signs, Sheinbaum said.
“But the stream changes its course, it breaks escaped and according to the pact you person to intelligibly demarcate the nationalist border,” Ms. Sheinbaum said during her regular property briefing.
The country is adjacent to SpaceX Starbase, which sits adjacent to Boca Chica Beach connected the Texas broadside of the Rio Grande.
The installation and motorboat tract for the SpaceX rocket programme is nether declaration with the Department of Defence and NASA, which hopes to nonstop astronauts backmost to the satellite and someday to Mars.
In June, Ms. Sheinbaum said the authorities was looking into contamination from the SpaceX installation aft pieces of metal, integrative and rocket pieces were reportedly recovered connected the Mexican broadside of the borderline pursuing the detonation of a rocket during a test.
The country besides carries the added sensitivity of Mf. Trump's bid to rename the Gulf of Mexico arsenic the Gulf of America, which Mexico has besides rejected.
