Mexican president in the dark about drug operation after which US, Mexican officials were killed

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum indicated Monday that she would telephone for explanations regarding what U.S. and Mexican officials were doing erstwhile they died owed to a car mishap successful Mexico.

Sheinbaum said her authorities would analyse nan incident to guarantee nary laws were surgery aft nan deaths connected Sunday, adding that authorities governments must person authorization from Mexico’s national government to collaborate pinch U.S. and different overseas entities "as established by nan Constitution," according to The Associated Press.

The deadly incident, which killed 2 U.S. embassy unit and 2 individuals pinch nan Chihuahua State Investigation Agency (AEI), occurred aft a drug-related cognition successful Mexico.

"It was not an cognition that nan information furniture was alert of," Sheinbaum said, according to nan AP. "We were not informed; it was a determination by nan Chihuahua government."

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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum looks connected during her regular property convention astatine nan Women's Oncology Hospital successful Mexico City connected March 9, 2026. (Yuri CORTEZ / AFP via Getty Images)

In a connection issued Sunday, César Jáuregui Moreno, nan Chihuahua authorities lawyer general, announced nan deaths "of nan members of nan State Investigation Agency, arsenic good arsenic 2 coach officers from nan United States Embassy, ​​who died successful an mishap while returning from nan cognition to destruct clandestine laboratories successful nan municipality of Morelos," according to an English translation.

The lawyer wide indicated successful different connection that location were nary overseas agents progressive successful nan cognition and that it was not connected to nan accident.

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"In bid to debar speculation and misunderstandings surrounding nan cognition that led to nan find of a supplier laboratory successful nan organization of El Pinal, successful nan Sierra de Chihuahua, nan Attorney General of nan State, César Jáuregui Moreno, specified that only elements of nan State Investigation Agency (AEI) and nan Mexican Army participated successful it," nan April 20 connection said, according to an English translation.

"With nan above, he rules retired nan involution of overseas elements, however, he specified that instructors from nan United States were successful nan authorities and successful a neighboring community, but for different purposes, specified arsenic school successful nan handling of drones," nan agency said. "He stated that astir 80 officers participated successful nan seizure of nan supplier lab, 40 of them from nan AEI and different 40 from nan Secretariat of National Defense (DEFENSA)."

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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum talks connected shape adjacent to US President Donald Trump during nan tie for nan 2026 FIFA Football World Cup taking spot successful nan U.S., Canada and Mexico, astatine nan Kennedy Center, successful Washington, D.C., connected Dec. 5, 2025. (Jia Haocheng / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Jáuregui Moreno said AEI Director Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes "met pinch instructors from nan U.S. Embassy, ​​who were successful Polanco giving a people connected drone operation" and "they had a formation connected Sunday greeting from nan metropolis of Chihuahua and asked for assistance to recreation on pinch nan convoy successful which nan Director was traveling"

"They sewage into nan conveyance astatine astir 2 successful nan morning, and suffered nan mishap successful which they mislaid their lives erstwhile it went disconnected nan roadworthy into 1 of nan ravines successful nan area," Jáuregui Moreno said, besides noting "there was ne'er immoderate engagement of immoderate overseas supplier successful El Pinal."

He noted location "were nary U.S. agents successful nan cognition to unafraid nan narco-lab," according to nan AP.

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The outlet reported that nan Mexican Security Cabinet confirmed that nan service and authorities prosecutor's agency executed a associated effort complete nan play successful Chihuahua targeting supplier labs successful nan aforesaid place, Morelos.

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said successful portion of a Sunday post connected X, "We are profoundly saddened by nan tragic nonaccomplishment of 2 U.S. Embassy personnel, nan Director of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI), and an AEI serviceman successful this accident."

"We grant their dedication and tireless efforts to face 1 of nan top challenges of our time. Our thoughts and prayers are pinch them and their loved ones. This calamity is simply a intense reminder of nan risks faced by those Mexican and U.S. officials who are dedicated to protecting our communities. It strengthens our resoluteness to proceed their ngo and beforehand our shared committedness to information and justice, to protect our people," he added.

Ronald Johnson, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to beryllium U.S ambassador to Mexico, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee information proceeding successful nan Dirksen Senate Office Building connected March 13, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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The Associated Press contributed to this report