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Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
President, Mexico
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‘Where Is The Work?’: Mexico President Sheinbaum Openly Dares Trump On Drug War

📅 Sep 18, 2026 Hook Global 8 MIN 529909 VIEWS 5 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
Sheinbaum rejects claims that Mexicans support foreign intervention, defending Mexico’s sovereignty and right to make its own decisions. She also challenges the US to address drug use, money laundering and the flow of weapons into Mexico. 00:00 - Sheinbaum rejects claims Mexicans support US intervention 01:00 - Sheinbaum calls the intervention survey false 02:00 - Sheinbaum recounts Mexico’s fight for independence 03:00 - Sheinbaum recalls Mexico’s history of foreign interventions 04:00 - Sheinbaum says sovereignty cannot be compromised 05:00 - Sheinbaum challenges the US report on Mexico 06:...

What Claudia Sheinbaum said

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Claudia Sheinbaum rejected a US media survey claiming most Mexicans would support foreign intervention, calling it false and contradictory to Mexico's nationalist sentiment. She grounded this in Mexican history, citing independence in 1821, the Plan of Iguala, and a legacy of resisting foreign interventions including the Pastry War, US territorial loss, and the 1914 US intervention. Responding to the US government's drug report on Mexico, she demanded a parallel report on US drug consumption, opioids, money laundering, and weapons flows from the US into Mexico. She defended Mexico's own actions, citing arrests of municipal officials and a case of DEA agents who allegedly allowed fentanyl trafficking in New Mexico. Sheinsbaum insisted Mexico gives daily public accounting and does not need to be judged externally, while highlighting the US government's failure to address its domestic drug crisis and cartel activity.

Key takeaways

  1. Sheinbaum called the survey claiming Mexican support for US intervention false and contrary to nationalist sentiment.
  2. Mexico's history of resisting foreign interventions makes any external interference unacceptable.
  3. She demanded the US government report on its own drug consumption, money laundering, and weapons trafficking into Mexico.
  4. She cited a case of DEA agents allegedly allowing fentanyl sales in New Mexico.
  5. Mexico provides daily public accountability and acts against organized crime, including municipal officials.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
300 events worldwide mentioning Mexican embassy gatherings metric 0:53
1821 year Mexico completed independence timeline 1:34
1836 year Spain recognized Mexico's independence timeline 1:34
1914 year of another US intervention during Mexican Revolution timeline 1:34

Chapters

  1. 0:00Survey on foreign intervention
  2. 1:34Mexican history and sovereignty
  3. 5:17US drug report and criticism

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 4:43What would your position and that of your government be regarding this report from the US government?
Claudia Sheinbaum 0:00 ↗
Don't for investig.
Interviewer 0:53 ↗
I also have a question. I don't know if I can ask it since it doesn't really have much to do with the topic. Despite the fact that there is a survey, and I say survey in quotation marks, which some outlets began repeating, claiming that the majority of Mexicans would support a foreign intervention in Mexico, that contrasts sharply with what we saw on the night of the Grito. There were more than 300 events around the world with many Mexican embassies having packed public squares. There was even a survey by the polling director at El Financiero that showed the exact opposite. It said the majority of people support cooperation but never intervention. So reality seems to clash somewhat with this supposed survey.

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Sheinbaum, C. (2026, September 18). ‘Where Is The Work?’: Mexico President Sheinbaum Openly Dares Trump On Drug War [Interview transcript]. Hook Global. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2957321/

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Claudia Sheinbaum. "‘Where Is The Work?’: Mexico President Sheinbaum Openly Dares Trump On Drug War." Hook Global, 18 Sep. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2957321/.

BibTeX 
@misc{sheinbaum2026_2957321,
  author       = {Claudia Sheinbaum},
  title        = {‘Where Is The Work?’: Mexico President Sheinbaum Openly Dares Trump On Drug War},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Hook Global. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {sep},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2957321/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}