MEXICO CITY (CN) - In her morning press conference Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed any possibility of U.S. intervention in Mexico after President Donald Trump suggested over the weekend that the neighboring country could be next following his unprecedented strike on Venezuela.
"I don't believe in invasion. I don't even think it's something they're taking very seriously," Sheinbaum said on Monday. She added that the threats are just Trump's way of speaking and the two of them have a good relationship.
Sheinbaum noted the two leaders have not spoken since the U.S. took Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro into custody early Saturday morning and don't have plans to, for now.
However, she has spoken to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Colombian President Gustavo Petro regarding Sunday's joint statement condemning the U.S. military action as a violation of international law. In the statement, six Latin American countries called for Venezuelans to be in charge of their own political future and expressed concern regarding control of their natural resources.
Sheinbaum reiterated her statements from the weekend in response to the U.S. government's strike, again assuring Mexico's sovereignty and rejecting foreign military involvement in Mexico and Latin America as a whole.
"It is necessary to reaffirm that in Mexico the people rule and that we are a free, independent and sovereign country: cooperation yes, subordination and intervention no," she said.
On Saturday, following the strike on Venezuela, Trump hinted at military intervention in Mexico during a Fox interview: "Sheinbaum doesn't run Mexico - the cartels do. I offered to eliminate them, and she said, 'No.'"
He went on to say that "something has to be done" about Mexico.
Trump has been ramping up pressure on organized crime since he was inaugurated. In January 2025, he designated cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations, allowing his administration to intervene with military force in Latin America.
Trump captured Maduro on the same narco-terrorism charges, though Trump also stated that he plans for the U.S. to tap Venezuela's oil reserves, the largest in the world.
In August 2025, Sheinbaum rebuffed reports saying that Trump signed a secret Pentagon directive authorizing military force against certain cartels in Mexico and Latin America.
Sheinbaum has been cooperative when it comes to fighting crime and drug flow from Mexico.
In February 2025, she launched Operation Northern Border, resulting in 10,493 arrests and the confiscation of around 259,000 pounds of drugs, according to government data.
Trump has repeatedly threatened Mexico with tariffs if something is not done about crime, threats that he has rescinded multiple times during his second term in office, citing Sheinbaum's cooperation.
Source: Courthouse News Service
