Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming that the Trump administration demanded her administration pursue politicians from her party with alleged cartel ties.
Speaking during her daily press conference, she said the outlet’s claims “have nothing to do with what was discussed in the phone call.”
“Such an issue has never been raised. There is no case where they told us ‘we have proof of this, we have a warrant.'”
🔴“Nada que ver con lo que se habló en la llamada”, responde la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ante las versiones de que EU haya pedido el arresto de políticos de Morena.
“No ha habido un caso donde nos digan tenemos prueba de esto”, expresa. pic.twitter.com/hX1ABMozi3
— Azucena Uresti (@azucenau) January 14, 2026
The article in question claimed that high-ranking Mexican officials have held meetings to discuss such demands following the capture of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro.
Demands include the potential arrest of members of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s ruling party, Morena, which the U.S. believes have ties with cartels, the outlet added, quoting people familiar with the discussions.
The phone call took place on Monday, and came after President Donald Trump’s threat to “start hitting land with regards to the cartels” in the neighboring country.
“We have a very good conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. We discussed different topics, including security with regards to our sovereignties, the decrease in drug-trafficking, trade and investment. Collaboration and cooperation in a context of mutual respect always yield results,” Sheinbaum said in a social media publication.
However, a recent report from The New York Times noted that Mexican officials have grown increasingly alarmed about potentially having its territory targeted by the U.S. following the operation that ended with the capture of Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.
An official told the outlet that the operation made them think “oh boy, this is more serious than we thought, and we are on the list of who could be next, and worse, we have been warned.”
Elsewhere in the report, officials noted that they have had to rethink their criticism of the U.S. operation that captured Maduro due to the possibility that it could help trigger Trump.
Originally published on Latin Times
