Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she asked her foreign minister to hold a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the country, Ronald Johnson, to develop a protocol to deal with criminal organizations following the latest strike against alleged drug vessels in the eastern Pacific.
"I spoke with the foreign minister (Juan Ramon De la Fuente) and asked him to call the ambassador to tell him we want an improved protocol, in the context of the security agreements we have with the U.S.," Sheinbaum said during her daily press conference.
Sheinbaum has criticized the strikes and did so again on Tuesday: "We want international agreements to be fulfilled and we are not in agreement with the attacks," she said.
The Trump administration, however, has made it clear it intends to continue with the campaign. Overall, at least 57 people have been killed in the strikes carried out by U.S. forces since the campaign in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific began in September.
In the meantime, the U.S. continues amassing troops, vessels and aircraft off the Venezuelan coast as it escalates pressure against Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.
On Monday, the U.S. again sent B-1B bombers close to Venezuela. Such aircraft had already flown close to Venezuela last Thursday. The records contradicted Donald Trump denial that U.S. bombers had been sent near the country's shores. The B-1B is a supersonic heavy bomber capable of carrying cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions.
The first flight took place about a week after B-52s flew a similar maritime corridor during a Pentagon-described "bomber attack demo" that included Marine F-35s. The U.S. military has concentrated an unusually large force in the Caribbean and off South America, including eight warships, P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, MQ-9 drones, an F-35 squadron and at least one submarine. It is also sending its largest aircraft carrier to the region.
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