Posted on 04/21/2026 5:04:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered an investigation into the role played by two US officials who reportedly worked for the CIA in a counter-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua.
The two died alongside two Mexican officials when their car crashed on their way back from an operation to destroy illegal drug labs, Chihuahua officials said.
Sheinbaum said that neither she nor senior members of the federal security team had been informed about any joint US-Mexican operations.
The Mexican leader has been adamant that foreign officials can only operate on Mexican soil if given prior clearance at the federal level.
Sheinbaum has come under pressure from her US counterpart, President Donald Trump, to do more to stem the flow of drugs from Mexico to the United States but she has insisted that Mexico's "sovereignty" cannot be breached.
On Monday, Sheinbaum said "we did not have knowledge of any direct work between Chihuahua state and personnel from the US embassy".
She also said the government needed "to understand the circumstances under which this was taking place, and then assess the legal implications".
According to a Chihuahua state official, the two US nationals and two members of the Chihuahua State Investigation Agency (AEI) died on Sunday morning when the car they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a ravine, where it exploded.
The US ambassador in Mexico, Ronald Johnson, described the two American citizens as "US embassy personnel".
Chihuahua State Attorney-General César Jáuregui said in a news conference on Sunday that the two were "instructor officers" from the US embassy who were engaging in "training work as part of the general and normal exchange we have with the US authorities".
He added that the accident happened as they were driving back from an operation in which...
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DO NOT TRUST HER, SORRY
Skidded off the road and exploded. Just like in the movies.
You know reading this gobbledygook from Scheinbaum— this fictional scene from “Sicario Day of the Soldado” comes to mind-— the coopting of every part of police actions (federales and locals) by Cartel monsters in trying to take out US people (not this time, as the scene unfolds) yes this is hollywood, fairly well done. Bless our People today, there:
8:37 video rescuing a Carteler’s kid from... them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6X-HTL43X4
Isn’t Scheinbaum the cartels’ presidente?
Probably her trying to keep her head on her shoulders. If the cartels think she is allowing such cooperation rather than obstructing it they’ll whack her.
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