Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday denied reports that her country has agreed to a border security deal with the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as part of “Project Portero.”
The DEA announced the alleged bilateral initiative on Monday, which would strengthen collaboration between the two countries in cracking down on illegal drug traffickers, including Mexico’s drug cartels.
Sheinbaum denied the alleged collaboration, telling reporters during her morning news briefing that she did not know where the initiative and announcement stemmed from.
“The DEA put out a statement yesterday saying that there is an agreement with the Mexican government for an operation called Portero,” Sheinbaum said. “There is no agreement with the DEA. The DEA puts out this statement, based on what we don’t know. We have not reached any agreement, none of the security institutions [have] with the DEA.”
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