Sheinbaum: “No foreign government would dare violate our sovereignty.”
This article by Alma E. Muñoz and Fernando Camacho appeared in the August 22, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. “No foreign government would dare violate our sovereignty; it’s not like it used to be,” President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo asserted when asked about the DEA director, Terry Cole, who yesterday did not rule out bombing drug cartels on Mexican soil.
She rejected the unprecedented collaboration with the agency, as the US official also stated.
“I’m not going to enter into a debate with the DEA anymore. We have what we have, nothing more, and it’s agents from this agency, like others, who request permission through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It’s given to them, and they have to comply with the National Security Law.”
In some cases, “information provided through the current national intelligence and investigation system within the framework of our sovereignty. There’s nothing more to it.”
President Sheinbaum emphasized that “Mexico is a free, independent, and sovereign country, and no foreign government would dare violate our sovereignty.”
She stated: “Mexico has a lot of strength; nationally, because of our people, because of what we represent as a government of the people; and international;y. So no, that’s not going to happen, and as I said: whatever you try, we have the National Anthem: a soldier in every son. The other day I said a [male] soldier and a [female] soldier, and they told me you’re violating the National Anthem,” she shared.
She clarified that no diplomatic note was sent to the DEA.
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