Trump pressures Mexico so that the US military can attack the cartels and demands that they “do more” against drug trafficking

Specifically, the US wants Special Operations forces troops or CIA agents “accompany Mexican soldiers in raids against alleged fentanyl laboratories,” several sources point out.

US forces would actively participate in these incursions under the command of Mexican forces, serving as support and “providing intelligence and advice”, something that has already been rejected by the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who rules out a US military intervention in the country.

This information comes the same day that the Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente and the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubiohave had a telephone conversation in which they agreed that it is necessary “do more” to address “shared threats.”

The US State Department has demanded “concrete and verifiable” results from Mexico against fentanyl drug trafficking.

“The United States made clear that gradual progress on border security challenges is unacceptable. The next bilateral contacts will require concrete and verifiable results to dismantle narcoterrorist networks,” the State Department’s Western Hemisphere Affairs office stated in a message on X.

The tone of this message contrasts with the statement released simultaneously from Washington and the Government of Mexico, which sends a joint message after the call to reaffirm “the importance of collaboration” between both countries “based on the mutual respect for sovereignty”.

The statement also highlights that Rubio and De la Fuente “agreed that more needs to be done to confront shared threats.”

Furthermore, he adds that A “high-level” security meeting will be convened in Washington in February.

This conversation occurs after the call that Trump and Sheinbaum held on Monday, who at the end of the call stated that military intervention in Mexico was “ruled out”, as the Republican had threatened days before when pointing out possible ground attacks on drug trafficking cartels.

US military in Mexico

This Thursday The New York Times published that the US proposed at the beginning of 2025 that the military of both countries collaborate to dismantle the Mexican cartels and insisted on it again after the capture of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, on January 3.

It must be remembered that during the administration of former President Joe Biden the CIA carried out secret drone flights in Mexico in order to find possible fentanyl laboratories.

These drones also track chemical precursors as they approach Mexican seaports, a US official told the newspaper, and that information is transferred to Mexican military units.