Mexican president rejects US sending troops to her country: 'I don't believe in an invasion'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum connected Monday condemned what she described arsenic U.S. intervention successful Venezuela and rejected nan thought of American troops entering Mexico, reaffirming her government’s committedness to nationalist sovereignty.

"We categorically cull involution successful nan soul affairs of different countries," Sheinbaum said astatine a property convention successful Mexico City, according to an charismatic transcript of nan speech released by her office.

"The history of Latin America is clear and forceful, nan involution has ne'er brought democracy, it has ne'er generated well-being aliases lasting stability. Only group tin build their ain future, determine their path, workout sovereignty complete their earthy resources and freely specify their shape of government," she said.

The U.S. subject connected Saturday carried retired an operation successful Caracas, extracting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their compound.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum answers questions during her greeting property convention astatine Palacio Nacional successful Mexico City connected Jan. 5, 2026. (Raquel Cunha/Reuters)

Maduro and Flores were boarded onto USS Iwo Jima and flown to New York to face national charges, pinch their arraignment taking spot connected Monday successful Manhattan.

Maduro is charged pinch 4 counts: narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine-guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to person machine-guns and destructive devices.

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His woman is charged pinch 3 counts: cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine-guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to person machine-guns and destructive devices.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his woman Cilia Flores are seen successful handcuffs aft landing astatine a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavy equipped Federal agents arsenic they make their measurement into an armored car en way to a Federal courthouse successful Manhattan connected Jan. 5, 2026. (TheImageDirect.com)

Sheinbaum said that pursuing nan seizure of Venezuela’s leader and his wife, and amid warnings from President Donald Trump that Mexico must "get their enactment together," Mexican sovereignty and self-determination stay non-negotiable.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he thinks Sheinbaum is simply a "terrific person," but nan cartels are "running Mexico."

"We’re going to person to do something. We’d emotion Mexico to do it, they’re tin of doing it, but unluckily nan cartels are very beardown successful Mexico," Trump said.

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Sheinbaum said her state is cooperating pinch nan United States to thief fight against supplier trafficking, organized crime and nan travel of fentanyl.

President Donald Trump speaks astatine his Mar-a-Lago club, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, successful Palm Beach, Fla, arsenic Secretary of State Marco Rubio and War Secretary Pete Hegseth listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"I don’t judge successful an invasion. I don’t moreover deliberation it’s thing they’re taking very seriously," Sheinbaum told reporters successful Spanish erstwhile asked astir a imaginable U.S. intervention, according to Reuters’ translation of her remarks.

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She said Trump has many times insisted during their telephone conversations that nan U.S. Army beryllium allowed to participate Mexico.

"We person said nary very firmly — first because we take sides our sovereignty, and 2nd because it is not necessary," Sheinbaum told reporters.