TEHRAN, Nov 30_Mexico says it bluntly objects to any potential cross-border armed operations targeting the country’s soil by the United States after the latter vows to blacklist the Mexican drug cartels.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_"Armed foreigners cannot intervene in our territory. We will not allow that," said President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday, AFP reported.
Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump pledged to put the cartels on the US’ so-called Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ list. “They will be designated," Trump said in a radio interview.
Trump’s remarks came after the cartels allegedly slew nine members of Mexico-based American-Mexican Mormon community on November 4.
His remarks, however, conjured up resentment among both Mexican nationals and politicians due to their bringing back memories of the US’ long history of territorial aggression against their country, including a 1848 war, during which the US appropriated half of Mexico’s expanse.
"Since 1914 there hasn't been a foreign intervention in Mexico and we cannot permit that," Lopez Obrador said, referring to the US occupation of the port of Veracruz over a century ago.
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