Despite having praised the coordination with his neighboring country on other occasions, this Monday, Donald Trump declared that he is willing to launch attacks inside Mexico if necessary to thwart the smuggling of illegal narcotics toward the United States.

“Would I launch attacks against Mexico to stop drug trafficking? By me, I'm all for it. Whatever it takes to stop drug trafficking,” the president said at the White House, adding, “I'm not saying I'm going to do it. But I would be proud to do it. her cooperation with the United States in the fight against drug trafficking.

The president made these statements to the press in the Oval Office amidst Operation Southern Spear, which he has ordered to combat drug trafficking in Latin America and which This has especially heightened tensions with Venezuela in the face of a possible US attack on its territory.

Since September, the US military has destroyed about 20 boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, near Venezuela and Colombia, extrajudicially killing more than 70 people, whom it labels “narco-terrorists,” without providing any evidence to support such a claim.

As NBC News reported earlier this month, the Trump administration has been planning a mission to send US intelligence officers and troops to Mexico to pursue drug cartels, although discussions about the scope of the mission are still ongoing and no final decision has been made.

Furthermore,This statement comes three days after President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirmed that a US military intervention is out of the question and highlighted the "understanding" between the two nations "on security issues," following recent statements by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "Any US intervention is ruled out," the president asserted.