Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanations after US Embassy officials die in Chihuahua

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Mexico
Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanations after US Embassy officials die in Chihuahua

AP
Updated 11 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations after four U.S. and Mexican officials died in an accident over the weekend, adding she was unaware of collaboration between the U.S. and the local government in northern Chihuahua.

Sheinbaum said she wanted to ensure no laws were broken after Sunday's deaths, which the state attorney general said happened while the officials were returning from an operation to destroy clandestine laboratories in a rural area.

The U.S. Embassy on Monday declined to identify who the U.S. officials were or which entity of the U.S. government they worked for, but said the officials were "supporting Chihuahua state authorities' efforts to combat cartel operations."

"It was not an operation that the security cabinet was aware of," Sheinbaum told journalists. "We were not informed; it was a decision by the Chihuahua government." She said they must have authorization from the federal government for such collaboration at the state level "as established by the Constitution."

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[Lovie777]

1. That doesn't sound good................

prayers to the families.

[Delphinus]

2. It doesn't

I will withhold my thoughts until I read more ...