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 the incidental to guarantee nary laws were breached aft the deaths connected Sunday, adding that authorities governments indispensable person authorization from Mexico’s national authorities to collaborate with U.S. and different overseas entities "as established by the Constitution," according to The Associated Press.

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

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

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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum looks connected during her regular property league astatine the 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, the Chihuahua authorities lawyer general, announced the deaths "of the members of the State Investigation Agency, arsenic good arsenic 2 teacher officers from the United States Embassy, ​​who died successful an mishap portion returning from the cognition to destruct clandestine laboratories successful the municipality of Morelos," according to an English translation.

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

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

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

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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum talks connected signifier adjacent to US President Donald Trump during the gully for the 2026 FIFA Football World Cup taking spot successful the U.S., Canada and Mexico, astatine the 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 with instructors from the U.S. Embassy, ​​who were successful Polanco giving a people connected drone operation" and "they had a formation connected Sunday greeting from the metropolis of Chihuahua and asked for assistance to question on with the convoy successful which the Director was traveling"

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

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

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The outlet reported that the Mexican Security Cabinet confirmed that the service and authorities prosecutor's bureau executed a associated effort implicit the play successful Chihuahua targeting cause labs successful the aforesaid place, Morelos.

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said successful portion of a Sunday station connected X, "We are profoundly saddened by the tragic nonaccomplishment of 2 U.S. Embassy personnel, the 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 the top challenges of our time. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their loved ones. This calamity is simply a solemn reminder of the 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 support our people," helium 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 the 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