Punitive Season : Mexico and Cuba
Trump straight up threatened Cuba with kinetic action.
Mexico is now next and under pressure. The review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement for free trade is imminent and meddling in Mexico is now out in the open.
Claudia Sheinbaum said: ‘We will not allow any foreign government to come and decide the future of the Mexican people.’
On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs after the United States requested the extradition of a state governor and nine other officials it accuses of arms and drug trafficking. Before this, CIA officials were killed in a car crash when they brazenly took part in a Mexican drug interdiction – with no authority.
Bilateral ties have been strained by a recent discovery that CIA agents have been taking part in anti-narcotics operations on Mexican soil without the consent of the Mexican government.
This marks the first time in the history of Mexico-U.S. bilateral ties that Washington has accused a high-ranking official still in office from Mexico, namely Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha, of criminal activity, Sheinbaum said.
Given the absence of reasonable proof of wrongdoing, the accusations could be politically driven, Sheinbaum said during her daily press conference.
“Defending sovereignty, as we have done so far, and the rule of law must be based on evidence. We will not allow any foreign government to come and decide the future of the Mexican people,” she stressed.
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