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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum indicated Monday that she would name for explanations concerning what U.S. and Mexican officers have been doing after they died as a result of a automotive accident in Mexico.
Sheinbaum mentioned her authorities would examine the incident to make sure no legal guidelines have been damaged after the deaths on Sunday, including that state governments will need to have authorization from Mexico’s federal government to collaborate with U.S. and different international entities “as established by the Structure,” in accordance with The Related Press.
The lethal incident, which killed two U.S. embassy personnel and two people with the Chihuahua State Investigation Company (AEI), occurred after a drug-related operation in Mexico.
“It was not an operation that the safety cupboard was conscious of,” Sheinbaum mentioned, in accordance with the AP. “We weren’t knowledgeable; it was a call by the Chihuahua authorities.”
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum seems on throughout her day by day press convention on the Girls’s Oncology Hospital in Mexico Metropolis on March 9, 2026. (Yuri CORTEZ / AFP through Getty Photos)
In a press release issued Sunday, César Jáuregui Moreno, the Chihuahua state lawyer normal, introduced the deaths “of the members of the State Investigation Company, in addition to two teacher officers from the USA Embassy, who died in an accident whereas coming back from the operation to destroy clandestine laboratories within the municipality of Morelos,” in accordance with an English translation.
The lawyer normal indicated in one other assertion that there have been no international brokers concerned within the operation and that it was not related to the accident.
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“With a purpose to keep away from hypothesis and misunderstandings surrounding the operation that led to the invention of a drug lab locally of El Pinal, within the Sierra de Chihuahua, the Legal professional Basic of the State, César Jáuregui Moreno, specified that solely components of the State Investigation Company (AEI) and the Mexican Military participated in it,” the April 20 assertion mentioned, in accordance with an English translation.
“With the above, he guidelines out the intervention of international components, nonetheless, he specified that instructors from the USA have been within the state and in a neighboring group, however for different functions, corresponding to educating within the dealing with of drones,” the workplace mentioned. “He said that round 80 officers participated within the seizure of the drug lab, 40 of them from the AEI and one other 40 from the Secretariat of Nationwide Protection (DEFENSA).”
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum talks on stage subsequent to US President Donald Trump in the course of the draw for the 2026 FIFA Soccer World Cup happening within the U.S., Canada and Mexico, on the Kennedy Heart, in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, 2025. (Jia Haocheng / POOL / AFP through Getty Photos)
Jáuregui Moreno mentioned AEI Director Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes “met with instructors from the U.S. Embassy, who have been in Polanco giving a course on drone operation” and “they’d a flight on Sunday morning from town of Chihuahua and requested for help to journey together with the convoy wherein the Director was touring”
“They acquired into the car at roughly two within the morning, and suffered the accident wherein they misplaced their lives when it went off the street into one of many ravines within the space,” Jáuregui Moreno mentioned, additionally noting “there was by no means any involvement of any international agent in El Pinal.”
He famous there “have been no U.S. brokers within the operation to safe the narco-lab,” in accordance with the AP.
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The outlet reported that the Mexican Safety Cupboard confirmed that the military and state prosecutor’s workplace executed a joint effort over the weekend in Chihuahua concentrating on drug labs in the identical place, Morelos.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson mentioned in a part of a Sunday post on X, “We’re deeply saddened by the tragic lack of two U.S. Embassy personnel, the Director of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Company (AEI), and an AEI officer on this accident.”
“We honor their dedication and tireless efforts to confront one of many biggest challenges of our time. Our ideas and prayers are with them and their family members. This tragedy is a solemn reminder of the dangers confronted by these Mexican and U.S. officers who’re devoted to defending our communities. It strengthens our resolve to proceed their mission and advance our shared dedication to safety and justice, to guard our individuals,” he added.
Ronald Johnson, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S ambassador to Mexico, speaks throughout a Senate International Relations committee nomination listening to within the Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing on March 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
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The U.S. State Department didn’t present additional remark to Fox Information Digital on Tuesday.
The Related Press contributed to this report
