During a news conference on Thursday, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Republican-led calls for the US military to intervene to counter drug cartel violence in the country, adding Mexico "does not take orders from anyone". Such a move would violate Mexico's sovereignty, he further mentioned. On Wednesday, Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw asked the Mexican president why he opposed a proposed legislation the congressman introduced in January, authorizing US military force to stem drug cartel violence in the neighboring country. "The cartels are ... creating a crisis at our border and turning Mexico into a failed narco-state," Crenshaw mentioned in a statement on January 12 about the proposal. In a Fox News interview on Monday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham advocated putting forward legislation to classify some drug cartels in Mexico as "foreign terrorist groups", adding it was time to "put Mexico on notice". A rece...
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