Don’t want to fight

“We don’t want to fight with the United States,” says Mexico’s president

From CNN's Uriel Blanco and Véronica Calderón

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her country does not seek confrontation with the United States, emphasizing that she has a good relationship with US President Donald Trump’s government.

The Mexican government has “a great relationship with US Northern Command, with US agencies, with the US embassy in Mexico itself, with people in the US who are involved in security cooperation,” Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference.

She added that while there is “cooperation and coordination” with the Trump administration, Mexican officials are clear about the principles of “defending our sovereignty and our territory.”

“We are neighbors of the United States. We are trade partners and we have common problems,” Sheinbaum continued. “They also have to address the causes of drug consumption, they have to deal with the criminal groups in the US that distribute drugs, and we do so in our territory. We collaborate with information, with investigations, within the framework of an understanding we have. So we do not want to fight with the United States.”

Trump has often accused Mexico of shirking its responsibility to control the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.

On Sunday, Trump claimed that drugs were “pouring” through Mexico and that “we’re going to have to do something.”