Sheinbaum says that US military will not enter Mexico after a report that Trump ordered the army to act against foreign posters

The BBC sought a confirmation of the Department of Defense, but was referred to the comments of the White House.

The CBS chain, a BBC partner in the US, received a statement from the White House that says: “The priority of President Trump is to protect the homeland, so he made the bold decision to designate several posters and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.”

The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said Thursday that the new directive “allows us to focus on operations (of the posters) and use other elements of the American power, such as intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever … to attack these groups if we have the opportunity to do so.”

If confirmed, it would be Trump's most aggressive decision in his campaign against Latin American organized crime, to which he blames the health crisis in the US produced by the consumption of fentanyl, a powerful opioid.

In February, several posters were included in the US list of terrorist organizations, including six Mexican groups, two Venezuelans and another Central American.

This week, Washington reported having uploaded to US $ 50 million the reward for the capture of Nicolás Maduro, whom he points out of leading the so -called Los Soles poster and relates to the Sinaloa poster.

Sheinbaum, however, said that Mexican authorities have no information that relates to the president of Venezuela with the powerful criminal group of northern Mexico.

Mexico, the largest business partner of the US, has turned a turn to its security policy after Trump's arrival to power with a hard hand agenda against drug trafficking.

The Mexican authorities sent 10,000 soldiers to the border, delivered to about thirty requested capos by the US, arrested hundreds of criminals, destroyed dozens of laboratories and have confiscated tons of drugs and smuggling fuel.

Trump, however, has insisted that the fact is not enough and establishes its commercial policy of imposition of tariffs, which could affect the Mexican economy, as the main criteria to press the Sheinbaum government.

Last week both leaders reached a new agreement to suspend for 90 days the tariffs on Mexican exports, of which 80% go to the US, thanks to security cooperation.

Sheinbaum announced that they would soon announce a new cooperation agreement for the fight against organized crime.

For years Trump has insisted on the possibility that the US collaborates with Mexico in the persecution of the posters, a task that he considers pending, not only because of the alleged inability of the Mexican authorities but also because of the collusion that according to him is between politics and posters.

According to The New York TimesUS military officers are already preparing options to perform operations against posters.

The news revives the precedent of US military interventions in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century with the argument of the fight against communism, a campaign that left hundreds of civil victims and promoted authoritarian governments throughout the region.

In the last 30 years, however, Washington reached a bipartisan consensus that the best military support that Latin America could receive would be indirectly, as happened in Colombia and in Mexico with military training and exchange plans.

In this, as in so many other fronts, Trump has broken consensus, re -applying ideas designed in the nineteenth century, such as the famous Monroe doctrine, who directed Washington's policy towards Latin America for decades.

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