WASHINGTON.- This Monday, the president of the United States, Donald Trumpdeclared that is not “happy” with Mexico for him fight drug traffickingso it does not rule out a attack on cartels in that country.
“Would you authorize the launch of attacks in Mexico to stop drugs? That’s fine with me,” the president said in a press conference at the White Houseand added: “I’m not saying I’m going to do it. But I would be proud to do it.”
Trump: “I’m not happy with Mexico”
Donald Trump spoke about Mexico again.
The president said that he is not happy and reiterated the speech of fighting the drug cartels in our country.pic.twitter.com/Mndzbsm4Zb
— Joaquín López-Dóriga (@lopezdoriga) November 17, 2025
Trump assured that he maintains conversations with the Government of Mexico and that the Latin American country “knows” what its position is.
“Let’s put it this way: I am not happy with Mexico,” declared the president, after pointing out that hundreds of thousands of people have died in the United States due to drugs.
Trump’s words represent a change in tone, since until now he has praised the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardofor its cooperation with the United States in the fight drug trafficking.
Operation “Southern Spear”
🚨#BREAKING | Donald Trump opens the door to a military intervention in Mexico against the cartels: “We will do whatever it takes to stop the drugs.”
The American president also described the Generation Z protests in our country as “big problems” and… pic.twitter.com/ao8aFVRZ5v— La Razón de México (@LaRazon_mx) November 17, 2025
The president gave these statements to the press in the Oval Office in the middle of the Operation Southern Lance that he has ordered to combat drug trafficking in Latin America and that has especially raised the tension with Venezuela in the face of a possible US attack within its territory.
Since September, the US Army has destroyed around twenty boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, near Venezuela and Colombia, extrajudicially killing more than 70 people, whom it describes as “narcoterrorists.”
In the same press conference this Monday, Trump said that he does not rule out any option regarding a possible military intervention in Venezuelan territory and that he is open to talking to him president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
“I’m not ruling anything out, we simply have to take care of Venezuela,” he said.
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