This information surfaces while Mexico and Washington deny any direct involvement of American officers in these de facto illegal operations on Mexican soil. And reignite tensions around the sovereignty of Mexico and the role of American agencies in the war on drugs.
The American administration’s crusade against the Mexican cartels is far from being a state secret. As soon as he returned to the Oval Office, Donald Trump signed an executive order adding these criminal organizations to the list of foreign terrorist organizations. And implied, in front of open microphones and cameras, that “Stranger things have already happened” when a journalist asked him about the possible deployment of American special forces on Mexican soil.
The start of the year 2026 was also an opportunity for Donald Trump and his CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to demonstrate the power and omnipotence of this emblematic agency with the spectacular arrest of Nicolás Maduro (arrested and incarcerated on the base drug trafficking charges) and the elimination of El Mencho, the head of one of the largest Mexican cartels of the moment.
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