amlo begs to differ.
Posted on 11/29/2019 10:02:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned Friday he would not allow the US to conduct cross-border armed operations, after Donald Trump vowed to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.
The US president has been talking tough on the powerful drug cartels since one was allegedly responsible for the massacre of nine women and children from a US-Mexican Mormon community in northern Mexico on November 4.
Trump tweeted after the killings that the US was ready to help Mexico "wage war on the drug cartels," and he followed up this week by vowing to add Mexican cartels to the US blacklist of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
That insulted national pride in Mexico, which resents a long history of armed interventions by its giant northern neighbor, and where Trump's comments have been taken as a threat of armed cross-border operations.
"Armed foreigners cannot intervene in our territory. We will not allow that," Lopez Obrador said.
He was quick to add that he considered any such operations unlikely, saying there was "great cooperation" between the neighbors and that Trump had always treated him "respectfully."
"In the unlikely case that a decision is taken that we consider affects our sovereignty, then we will act within the framework of international law, but I see it as unlikely," said the leftist leader, who took office one year ago.
US Attorney General William Barr will visit Mexico City next week for talks, said Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.
Lopez Obrador, for his part, is due to meet Monday with family members of the slain Mormons.
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'Course now we might both be morons :-)
Sounds like a deal.
Close the border.
Or maroons..............
Yeah, and we won’t let illegal immigrants into the U. S.
Got it.
Wink!
Not allow? And just how does he propose to stop the US Military?
I'm not advocating an invasion of a neighboring country. However, I wouldn't let them play the role of Laos and Cambodia - providing a free haven for cartel operations. If the cartel is operating against US interests (ie. rising above the level of merely helping the weak destroy their lives), then I say we pursue and engage them where-ever they are.
They wouldn’t allow George Patton to commence operations against Pancho Villa, either...(didn’t work)
No. The headline is FAKE NEWS. The president of Mexico stated several times that he was certain the US would not engage the cartels unilaterally. He was responding to a barrage of FAKE NEWS reporters who were trying to force him to take the position they claimed he took. They lied. Once again the NEWS seeks to be the news, not report the news.
Can our Sanctuary Cities take them in and nurture them?
amlo begs to differ.
Are you serious?
The Mexican air force has no fighter jets. Their last worn-out F-5s were mothballed in 2016
‘’Insulted Mexican pride’’? I should think just being Mexican in Mexico insult enough.
Mexico not allow US military operations against cartels because too many U.S. and Mexican politicians get kickbacks, favors, and bribes from these organizations.
So there ya have it.
Let’s Nuke the Cartels!
As if the Mexican government has control over any actual territory.
Sometimes a private army doesn't cut it Pancho looks tired
What's next? Cartels warn it will not allow US Military ops against Mexico.
He looks retired to me.
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