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Mexico’s President Calls for Dialogue and Peace as Pentagon Strikes More Alleged Drug Boats

HeadlineDec 19, 2025

The Pentagon says it killed five people in a pair of airstrikes on boats in the eastern Pacific, alleging they were carrying drugs, though it, again, provided no evidence. The latest attacks bring the Pentagon’s claimed death toll in similar attacks to over 100 since September. This comes as leaders of the United Nations and Latin American nations are calling on the Trump administration to halt the extrajudicial killings — and to end its threats of a regime change war against Venezuela. This is Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, speaking Wednesday.

President Claudia Sheinbaum: “We reiterate Mexico’s position according to our constitution of nonintervention, no foreign interference, self-determination of peoples and peaceful resolution of controversies. We call for dialogue and peace to resolve any international controversy, not intervention.”

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