President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he will not permit an armed foreign intervention a century after Mexico was last invaded, Reuters reported.
Designating groups as foreign terrorist organizations is aimed at disrupting their finances by imposing U.S. sanctions. But, the Mexicans are worried it could lead to an invasion.
“Since 1914 there hasn’t been a foreign intervention in Mexico and we cannot permit that,” Lopez Obrador said at a news conference, referring to the U.S. occupation of the port of Veracruz 105 years ago. U.S. troops also entered Mexico in 1916, chasing revolutionary Pancho Villa after he killed U.S. citizens.
Trump has offered military assistance, but Obrador has declined.
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“Armed foreigners cannot intervene in our territory,” Lopez Obrador said, instead offering more cooperation with the United States on fighting drug gangs, which have shown their power in a series of battles with security forces and civilians in recent months.
Attorney General Bill Barr will meet with President Lopez Obrador to discuss security cooperation. They are unclear as to what the designation of cartels means exactly.
Obrador has to do more. Drugs are pouring into our country and China’s using them as a conduit
When the President threatened tariffs, the Mexican President was forced to cooperate with illegal immigration. It’s not enough, but Lopez Obrador is weak on handling transnational gangs and they are gaining in strength under his leadership.
No invasion in a century: Mexico bristles at cartel terror… https://t.co/j8fJo8pG1G
— Tom Flowers 🎧 (@TomFlowers) November 29, 2019
Fight the Cartels. @ChristianWhiton slams President Lopez Obrador who has failed to stop the violent drug cartels in Mexico. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/B8ZnGELq0p
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) November 27, 2019
We have to address the illegal immigration first. Half of Mexico moved over here in the last decades, population increase in the last 30 years is 90 million, mostly from immigration. Unchecked immigration brings crime. We don’t even know how many illegals live here and who they are. Unacceptable. And crossing the border back and forth should not be allowed past a limited number because of the possibility to do illegal commerce or drugs, and to bribe the officers.
I agree with President Trump; however, we must do more to halt the addiction epidemic in our country. Without the demand for these drugs, the supplying becomes easier to control.
As for China, there is no one who believes that the Communist Chinese are not in total control of what leaves their country. Using our drug addiction would be one of several ways of tearing this country apart
Lopez Obrador may be president of Mexico but he is a weak and ineffectual leader who has no say in that President Trump has accurately defined murderous drug cartels as terrorists. Obrador can’t control the murderous bastards in his own country. He’s a fool to think he can control how we chose to protect our American citizens from the invasion of the worthless scum that enter the US from his lawless land.