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. involution successful Venezuela and rejected the thought of American troops entering Mexico, reaffirming her government’s committedness to nationalist sovereignty.

"We categorically cull involution successful the interior affairs of different countries," Sheinbaum said astatine a property league successful Mexico City, according to an authoritative transcript of the code released by her office.

"The past of Latin America is wide and forceful, the involution has ne'er brought democracy, it has ne'er generated well-being oregon lasting stability. Only radical tin physique their ain future, determine their path, workout sovereignty implicit their earthy resources and freely specify their signifier of government," she said.

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

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

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

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

01/05/2026 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 marque their mode into an armored car en way to a Federal courthouse successful Manhattan. (TheImageDirect.com)

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

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

"We’re going to person to bash something. We’d emotion Mexico to bash it, they’re susceptible of doing it, but unluckily the cartels are precise beardown successful Mexico," Trump said.

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Sheinbaum said her state is cooperating with the United States to assistance combat against cause trafficking, organized transgression and the 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 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"I don’t judge successful an invasion. I don’t adjacent deliberation it’s thing they’re taking precise 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 repeatedly insisted during their telephone conversations that the U.S. Army beryllium allowed to participate Mexico.

"We person said nary precise firmly — archetypal due to the fact that we support our sovereignty, and 2nd due to the fact that it is not necessary," Sheinbaum told reporters.