🪖Why does the opposition in Mexico support a foreign country’s interference in the country’s territory?

While Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is positioning herself in favor of national sovereignty, some opposition sectors support the possibility of the United States intervening in Mexican territory under the pretext of combating drug trafficking.

Figures such as businessmen Ricardo Salinas Pliego and Simón Levy have advocated for a narrative in which a possible US intervention is a positive development, without questioning why these efforts to combat organized crime are not replicated in Washington.

In this regard, Mexican Latin American studies expert Aníbal García Fernández stated in an interview with Sputnik that these types of actions have been repeated since the 19th century, when Mexican independence was achieved.

From attempts to impose an emperor, as happened with Maximilian of Habsburg, to initiatives such as the Mérida Plan under former President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), which injected US resources into the fight against organized crime, the conservative sector of the Mexican political class always advocates for foreign intervention, outside of any sovereign collaboration agreement.

“The US administration, whether Republican or Democratic, always has a way of analyzing the political or economic situations of other countries to make these kinds of statements, cover them in the media, and fabricate a consensus, to the effect that they don’t have territorial control, that there is a presence of drug trafficking in different areas of the country, but they never do the same on their own territory,” he pondered.