Sheinbaum pushes back on Trump, insists US won't strike Mexico

Maria Clara Cobo and Paola Vega Torre, Bloomberg News on Nov 18, 2025

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MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum again ruled out a U.S. military intervention in Mexico, pushing back on the latest suggestion of unilateral action from President Donald Trump.

“It won’t happen,” Sheinbaum said emphatically on Tuesday, responding to the U.S. leader’s comments a day earlier that he may even deploy ground troops to Mexico to combat drug smuggling.

Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump added that he’s “not happy” with Mexico in wide-ranging comments that also touched on possible U.S. military action against Venezuela and Colombia. The remarks hit Mexico’s peso currency.

Sheinbaum said Trump has repeatedly offered U.S. military assistance to combat criminal groups in Mexico, but she has always rejected it.

“I have told them in every conversation that we can collaborate, that they can help us with the information they have, but that we operate in our territory. We don’t accept intervention from a foreign government,” she said at her daily morning press conference.

On Monday, Trump said he’d be “proud” to expand strikes that have targeted alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific to targets on land in Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico over concerns about drugs entering the U.S.

Sheinbaum noted that the U.S. has said it won’t intervene unless Mexico specifically requests it.

“We aren’t going to ask for it because we do not want intervention from any foreign government,” she said.

Mexico’s foreign ministry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump’s campaign of lethal strikes against alleged drug trafficking vessels has already killed about 80 people, prompting accusations from critics that the administration is engaged in extrajudicial killings.

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(With assistance from Alex Vasquez.)

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