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LatinTimes Staff Reporter

Trump Recycles Column Urging U.S. Action Against Cartels, Reopening Sovereignty Clash With Sheinbaum

This combination of pictures created on December 17, 2025, shows Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking during her daily press conference at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on November 28, 2025, and US President Donald Trump looking on during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 15, 2025. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged the United Nations on December 17, to "prevent any bloodshed" in Venezuela, as US President Donald Trump piled pressure on the South American country. (Credit: Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS and Yuri CORTEZ / AFP via Getty Images)

MEXICO CITY — President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account on Sunday, August 2, to circulate a five-month-old opinion piece that brands Mexico's government as chronically corrupt and presses President Claudia Sheinbaum to open the country's borders to American forces hunting drug cartels. The repost reignited a sovereignty dispute that has been building between Washington and Mexico City for weeks.

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