US pressing Mexico to allow US forces to fight cartels, NYT reports
Source: msn/Reuters
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Jan 15 (Reuters) - The United States is intensifying pressure on Mexico to allow U.S. military forces to conduct joint operations to dismantle fentanyl labs inside the country, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.
U.S. officials want American forces, either Special Operations troops or CIA officers, to accompany Mexican soldiers on raids on suspected fentanyl labs, the report said, citing multiple unnamed officials. "On the campaign trail, President Trump pledged to take on the cartels," a White House official told Reuters, adding that Trump has "left all options on the table" to stop drugs from entering the country.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News last week that cartels were running Mexico and suggested the U.S. could strike land targets to combat them, in one of a series of threats to deploy U.S. military force against drug cartels.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said this week that she ruled out a U.S. military intervention to combat drug cartels following a "good conversation" with Trump on security and drug trafficking.
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PuraVidaDreamin
(4,475 posts)You will all pay!
Right?
Bayard
(28,718 posts)As he does in sticking his nose into every other country's business, the whole world would be better off.
Total control freak, along with his many other attributes.
Lovie777
(21,876 posts)TomSlick
(12,885 posts)Mexico has experience with US military incursions.
Any Mexican President who agreed to Trump's demand would be hounded out of office and likely the country.