US President Donald Trump says he has been speaking with Mexico about a potential military intervention.
By Erin Hale and News Agencies
(Al Jazeera) – United States President Donald Trump says he may expand his unprecedented strikes against Latin American drug cartels to include Mexico, the Reuters news agency and the TV network NBC report.
“Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me. I’ve been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand,” he told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday. “We’re losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs. So now we’ve stopped the waterways, but we know every route.”
Trump did not say how or when such strikes could take place. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has previously stated her opposition to any such attacks on her country’s soil.
Jeff Garmany, an associate professor of Latin American studies at the University of Melbourne, told Al Jazeera opposition from Mexico City may fall on deaf ears. “There are several legal hurdles standing in the way, some of which are domestic and others of which are international. There are also basic protocols of international diplomacy that, while perhaps not bound by law, are generally respected by UN member states,” he said.
