Mexico President, Claudia Sheinbaum, has claimed she rejected an offer from Donald Trump to send US troops to Mexico to help combat drug trafficking.
Sheinbaum revealed this while speaking at a public event on Saturday.
According to her, Trump had asked during a call how he could help fight organised crime and suggested sending US troops.
The Mexican leader said she turned it down, because “we will never accept the presence of the United States army in our territory.”;
“I told him, ‘No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,’”; Sheinbaum said.
Since assuming office in January, Trump has constantly hit out at Mexico and the US’s other neighbour, Canada, over drug trafficking.
The US president accused the two countries of allowing illegal drugs, most notably fentanyl, to flow over their borders into the US.
