Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a visit to Mexico, where he will meet on Wednesday with President Claudia Sheinbaum to address an agenda of issues of regional interest such as security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs, and migration.

In addition, he is expected to maintain his stance on the tension in the Caribbean, exacerbated by the US military attack on a ship that allegedly departed Venezuela with drugs on board.

Rubio landed at Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA), on the outskirts of Mexico City, where he was received by Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente.

This visit comes at a time when Washington is seeking to continue strengthening cooperation with Mexico on immigration and trade, although the focus of the meeting scheduled for this Wednesday between Rubio and Sheinbaum is especially on security talks and the US proposal to help with troops in the fight against drug cartels in Mexico.

Since US President Donald Trump signed a directive in August authorizing military actions against criminal groups based in Latin America, from the large Mexican cartels to the transnational gang Tren de Aragua or the Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha, Sheinbaum has insisted that cooperation will be maintained but that she will never allow a US military presence on Mexican soil.

A spokesperson The State Department's spokesman said the talks in Mexico will focus on establishing areas for further cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking. Rubio's visit, which departs for Ecuador on Wednesday, is part of the aggressive U.S. campaign against gangs with transnational connections, which includes a large military deployment with more than 4,000 marines, destroyers, and a nuclear-powered submarine in the waters of the southern Caribbean, which has led Caracas to accuse Washington of intimidation and of wanting to force the fall of the government of Nicolas Maduro. This Tuesday,The US government reported that the contingent carried out its first attack in the area, destroying a ship that, according to Washington, belonged to the Tren de Aragua and had departed from Venezuela with drugs on board.

Trump himself assured on his social network Truth Social that the attack ended the lives of 11 alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

Rubio, for his part, stressed shortly before landing in Mexico that this action was “an anti-drug operation,” while noting that he is not “going to speculate on what may happen in the future” when asked if Washington plans to militarily attack Venezuela.

For its part, the Venezuelan government has accused the US of creating the video that shows the attack on the ship with artificial intelligence (AI).

In this sense, the Venezuelan head of Communication, Freddy Nanez, directly charged against the Secretary of State, saying that “it seems” that Rubio "He continues to lie to his president" and that "after leading him into a dead end, he now gives him an AI video as 'proof'."

"Enough is enough for Marco Rubio to incite war and try to stain President Donald Trump's hands with blood. Venezuela is not a threat," the minister added.