Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is reacting angrily to Republican lawmakers backing military force against drug cartels who recently kidnapped Americans and are trafficking deadly fentanyl into the U.S.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is reacting angrily to Republican lawmakers backing military force against drug cartels who recently kidnapped Americans and are trafficking deadly fentanyl into the U.S.
“We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene and much less foreign armed forces to intervene in our territory,” he said Thursday at a news conference. The White House says it has the powers it needs to confront the cartels, and the Pentagon has raised concerns that any proposal to deploy the military south of the border would threaten Mexico’s cooperation in efforts to hold the cartels at bay.
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