Claudia Sheinbaum denies report of U.S. military action inside Mexico

Her comments come after a recently published report claimed the U.S. had begun detailed planning for a new anti-cartel mission inside Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said unilateral U.S. military action inside Mexico “won’t happen” on Tuesday.

Her comments come after NBC News published a report Monday, which said the U.S. had begun detailed planning for a new anti-cartel mission inside Mexico, including sending troops and intelligence officers to the country.

“It won’t happen. We have no reports that it will happen… And besides, we don’t agree to it,” Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference when asked about the NBC report.

The report claimed that early stages of training had already begun as well as discussions about the scope of the “potential mission.” It also indicated that U.S. troops would operate under “the authority of the U.S. intelligence community, known as Title 50 status.”

It did note that a final decision on the mission had not been made and the details came from “two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.”

This isn’t the first time Sheinbaum has rejected unilateral U.S. military action inside Mexico.

In April, Sheinbaum said the country would categorically reject any unilateral U.S. military action in Mexico and warned that such measures “would not resolve anything” amid threats from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to use drone strikes against drug cartels.

Sheinbaum spoke to reporters on April 8 during a daily news conference and answered questions about another NBC News report that claimed Trump’s administration is considering drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico to combat trafficking across the shared border.