“We cannot reject (spy) because we don’t know what they did.”
With those words, Mexico’s Defense Minister Ricardo Trevila Drewa responded to a question of whether he was involved in “spy” near the US-MEXICO border and south.
“They have not violated the national airport,” President Claudia Shinbam said at a press conference on Tuesday morning.
The US military has “significantly increased its surveillance on Mexican drug dealers, and sophisticated intelligence aircraft flew in the United States and at least 18 passengers in international airspace, and the US military has increased the monitoring of Mexican drug dealers. Baja Peninsula. ”
The news system said its reporting was based on “open source data and three US officers.”
Trevilla said that Mexican officials have “set up two trips, including the February 3 aircraft,” 83 km southwest of Kabo San Lukas. According to the Ministry of Defense.
Shinbam said last week Although the US military is near Mexican, a significant distance south of the US-Mexico border is “it is not strange that there is a flying aircraft in the international airspace.”
However, the US military recently used spy aircraft to monitor areas near Mexican, CNN said that it was not normal.
‘A dramatic expansion in the process’
The US military intelligence flights-many of which flew near the US-MEXICO border-10 days in the late January and early February, CNN said.
Citing current and former US military officers, airplanes near Mexican territory indicate “a dramatic increase in operations”.
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– Christian Tribard (RTRBRTC) February 11, 2025
They come at the time when US President Donald Trump is in Using the military to protect the border He seeks to prevent the flow of drugs from Mexico into the United States, especially in Fendan.
CNN said that a former military officer has been historically fleeing a monthly surveillance work around the US-Mexico border, citing a deep experience in domestic security. ”
“In general, the authorities focus on collecting intelligence on other priorities on other priorities such as Russian operation in Ukraine or hunting down Russian or Chinese submarines. This action shows that the military has already begun to change the US national security capabilities defined from foreign threats to focus on the southern border. Trump has announced a national emergency“CNN
According to CNN sources, the types of spy aircraft used to carry out the latest US military operations, including Boeing P -8 poseidans, a Lockheed U -2 and a Boeing RC -135, “are capable of collecting deep intelligence within Mexico.”
Trevilla said there were contracts between Mexico and the US Armed Forces to share such information.
“In any case, they will give it to us,” the defense minister said.
“I had (United States) telephone contact Northern command … We have established that we are going to follow the bilateral instructions between the two countries’ armed forces, ”Trevilla said.
The US government seems to have decided to do everything they can to fight Mexican Cartels, which is involved in a variety of crimes, including drug trafficking and people on the Mexico-American border. On the first day of his second period, Trump signed an administrative order It set the foundation to declare cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, while the US government Was announced last week It is intended to “continue to eliminate the cortells and transnational criminal systems.”
At the Oval Office on January 20, Trump said the use of the US military against Mexican Cartles in Mexico would “take place” It was announced last year that military strikes were “completely” at the Cartel targets in Mexico.
CNN reported that “Ramp-Up” on spy airplanes near Mexican territory, “Underlines Trump’s commitment to use the military as a leading company that handles the countercotics and border security-two issues led by domestic law enforcement agencies.”
“… some current and former American officials expressed peaceful concerns to CNN, and the US military may be part of an attempt to detect its targets by the US military,” the media outlet further stated.
The United States, citing the United States Justice Source, said that the El Universal Newspaper, the aircraft, said that the planes were associated with the information provided by the Ismail ‘El Mayo’ Jambada and Ovidio and Joakin Gusman, Los Sapphos. “
Report: Mexico expects more expansion of US ‘activities’ on the border
On Wednesday, El Universal announced that it would approach a “high -level federal government analysis” that predicted “increasing from the United States on the 3,145 -kilometer border sharing with Mexico.
“After the increase in international water United States spy aircraft to monitor Mexican drug dealers, the federal government expects intelligence and military operations from the northern neighbors on the Mexico border,” El Universal said.
The government analysis said, “The intensity of this America border operations will help the Mexican government to accept the safety privileges.”
El Universal does not say what those “security privileges” will be.
Sheinbam says the Mexican government is ready to cooperate with the United States on security issues, but he opposes the US military to fight Mexican Cartels on Mexican soil.
“We all want to fight drug dealers. It is clear. So what should we do? We must cooperate and cooperate with efforts – they have them in their area and in our territory.” He said last month.
Undoubtedly unconstitutional intervention in Mexico by the United States is no doubt that the Mexican government is angry, and there is no doubt that there is a great difficulty in bilateral relations. But, As Trump said“Stranger things happened.”
According to National Security Educator Watter Hernandez, “The US government is preparing a low military intervention in Mexico with special powers and drone attacks.”
“Any military action of this nature requires intelligence planes we see,” He told El Universal.
Carlos Perez Riccard, an educator who specializes in security issues and “hundred years of spies and drugs: History of America’s anti -drug agents in Mexico,” In December El told the newspaper He would not be surprised that one day he would wake up to an American missile that hit a metamatamine laboratory in Patakuwado, a hometown of Gusman, a hometown of Gusman, “El Sapo”.
“There is nothing to suggest that this may happen (but) the most aggressive, direct, and aggressive principle will lead to a decrease in trafficking in the US,” he said.
