Opposition Senator Téllez tells Fox News that Mexicans want US help against the cartels

Mexican Senator Lilly Téllez engaged successful a warfare of words with President Claudia Sheinbaum Thursday and Friday aft telling Fox News that astir Mexicans would invited U.S. assistance successful the warfare against cause cartels.

Téllez, a subordinate of the blimpish National Action Party (PAN), angered President Sheinbaum and members of the ruling Morena enactment by referring to them connected Wednesday arsenic narco-politicians resisting the U.S. connection to conflict the cartels.

Senator Téllez is not known for being hesitant to person her dependable heard, but her caller warfare of words with President Sheinbaum has taken her outspokenness to a caller level. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro.com)

Sheinbaum responded connected Thursday by calling Téllez a traitor for encouraging U.S. intervention. 

“It’s not a insignificant contented that a legislator gave an interrogation to a overseas media outlet calling for intervention,” Sheinbaum said.

Téllez clapped backmost Friday with a lengthy connection connected societal media, contending she said nary specified thing.

“What I said was ‘help’ (cooperation and consent), not ‘intervention’ (violation of sovereignty). … Speaking of assistance is simply a governmental enactment that is realized done the volition of the parties, it is state of look and parliamentary inviolability, not a crime,” she wrote.

During Wednesday’s quality connected Fox Noticias, Téllez told Rachel Campos-Duffy that the U.S. connection to assistance Mexico combat cause cartels “is perfectly welcome,” assuring the Fox News big that “this is the sentiment of the bulk of Mexicans.”

“The lone radical opposed to the connection to assistance america … are the narco-politicians, which includes President Sheinbaum and her full group,” Téllez said, pointing to the president’s recent endorsement of Morena Senator Adán Augusto López.

López is accused by the absorption of ties to organized crime successful the authorities of Tabasco, stemming from his narration to his hand-picked authorities information curate Hernán Bermúdez, a fugitive who is the alleged person of the La Barredora transgression gang.

On Tuesday, Sheinbaum ratified López arsenic the person of the Morena caucus successful the Senate.

Telléz, a erstwhile subordinate of Morena, said the ratification proves that the Sheinbaum medication is “infiltrated by the cause cartels,” which person been labeled arsenic terrorists by the U.S. government.

“This authorities is intelligibly associated with the cartels,” she said, adding that this is wherefore Sheinbaum has been “angered by [U.S. President Donald] Trump’s connection to help” portion her medication “is doing everything it tin to obstruct” U.S. efforts to instrumentality connected the cause cartels.

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The PAN legislator said Mexicans are fed up with the unit and corruption cultivated by organized transgression gangs, asserting her presumption that Morena is protecting the cartels, which is “the genuine treason against the homeland.”

Téllez besides criticized Sheinbaum’s overseas argumentation stance, accusing her of preferring ideological alliances (citing Venezuela and Cuba) implicit information cooperations (citing Sheinbaum’s nationalist denial of cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration).

With reports from El Universal, El Imparcial and Fox News