Trump Just Blustering About Mexico “Invasion,” Sheinbaum Says

President Donald Trump has appeared to announce imminent land strikes on drug cartels in what would mark a further escalation of his campaign against alleged narco-terrorists across Latin America, Chad de Guzman reported for Time.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has downplayed the likelihood of unilateral U.S. action on Mexican soil. (Photo: Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Facebook)

Trump did not elaborate, but his comments hinted at an expansion of U.S. military operations, potentially even into Mexico.

Since September, his administration has killed at least 115 people in more than 30 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It is not the first time Trump has teased land strikes.

In November, Trump told U.S. servicemembers that a land attack on suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers could start “very soon.”

Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of the cocaine supply in the U.S.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has downplayed the likelihood of unilateral U.S. action on Mexican soil. “I don’t believe in the possibility of invasion. I don’t believe even that it’s something they are taking seriously,” she said Monday.

“Organized crime is not dealt with through foreign military intervention.”

She reasserted the sovereignty of Mexico and other Latin American states: “We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries. … For Mexico, sovereignty and self-determination are neither optional nor negotiable.”