Members of Mexico’s federal forces escort prisoners needed within the U.S. for ties to drug-trafficking teams right into a aircraft, amid rising stress from U.S. President Donald Trump on Mexico to dismantle the nation’s drug organizations, on the Toluca International Airport, in San Pedro Totoltepec, Mexico, August 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters
“It’s not going to occur,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Tuesday.
“He [Trump] has instructed it on varied events or he has stated, we give you a United States navy intervention in Mexico, no matter it’s essential battle the legal teams,’” she stated. “But I’ve informed him whenever that we will collaborate, that they can assist us with info they’ve, however that we function in our territory, that we don’t settle for any intervention by a overseas authorities.”
Ms. Sheinbaum stated she had stated it to Mr. Trump and to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and that they’ve understood.
“Would I need strikes in Mexico to cease medication? OK with me, no matter we’ve to do to cease medication,” Mr. Trump stated on Monday, including that he is “not proud of Mexico.”
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico shared a video via social platform X later Monday that included earlier feedback from Mr. Rubio saying that the U.S. wouldn’t take unilateral motion in Mexico.
Meanwhile, Mexican and U.S. diplomats have been making an attempt to type out on Tuesday what could have been an precise U.S. incursion.
On Monday, males arrived in a ship to a seaside in northeast Mexico and put in some indicators signalling land that the U.S. Department of Defence thought-about restricted.
Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry stated late on Monday that the nation’s Navy had eliminated the indicators, which seemed to be on Mexican territory. And on Tuesday, Ms. Sheinbaum stated that the International Boundary and Water Commission, a binational company that determines the border between the 2 nations, was getting concerned.
The indicators, pushed into the sand close to the place the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico, triggered a stir when witnesses stated males in a ship arrived on the native seaside generally known as Playa Bagdad and erected them.
The indicators learn in English and Spanish “Warning: Restricted Area” and went on to clarify that it was Department of Defence property and had been declared restricted by “the commander.” It stated there may very well be no unauthorized entry, images or drawings of the realm.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico and the Pentagon didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Mexico contacted its consulate in Brownsville, Texas after which the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. Eventually, it was decided that contractors working for some U.S. authorities entity had positioned the indicators, Sheinbaum stated.
“But the river adjustments its course, it breaks unfastened and in line with the treaty it’s a must to clearly demarcate the nationwide border,” Ms. Sheinbaum stated throughout her day by day press briefing.
The space is near SpaceX Starbase, which sits adjoining to Boca Chica Beach on the Texas aspect of the Rio Grande.
The facility and launch website for the SpaceX rocket program is below contract with the Department of Defence and NASA, which hopes to ship astronauts again to the moon and sometime to Mars.
In June, Ms. Sheinbaum stated the federal government was trying into contamination from the SpaceX facility after items of metallic, plastic and rocket items have been reportedly discovered on the Mexican aspect of the border following the explosion of a rocket throughout a take a look at.
The space additionally carries the added sensitivity of Mf. Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico because the Gulf of America, which Mexico has additionally rejected.
Published – November 19, 2025 06:48 am IST
