US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Mexico as early as next week

President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that it is apt that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition travel to Mexico adjacent week to motion a caller bilateral information agreement.

“He volition precise astir apt travel … successful the archetypal week of September; it’s probable. It volition beryllium confirmed this week,” Sheinbaum said astatine her greeting property conference.

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Sheinbaum anuncia posible visita de Marco Rubio a México

La presidenta @Claudiashein informó que el secretario de Estado de EUA, @marcorubio, podría visitar México en la primera semana de septiembre para firmar el acuerdo de seguridad bilateral; misdeed embargo, aclaró que la… pic.twitter.com/PHb4eBWCrj

— Político MX (@politicomx) August 25, 2025

Asked whether the caller Mexico-U.S. information statement would beryllium signed during Rubio’s visit, Sheinbaum responded: “Yes, that’s the idea.”

The president has said connected repeated occasions this period that the caller information statement is “ready.”

She said past week that the bilateral pact was connected the verge of being signed and is “fundamentally” based connected “sovereignty, communal trust, territorial respect … and coordination without subordination.”

“They are the 4 principles,” Sheinbaum said past Tuesday.

The Mexico-U.S. information narration is presently governed by the Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities. That statement took effect successful precocious 2021, superseding the Mérida Initiative.

Pact to beryllium signed amid hostility successful the Mexico-US relationship  

The signing of a caller Mexico-U.S. information statement successful the archetypal week of September would travel aft an eventful and turbulent August.

On Aug. 8, The New York Times reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had “secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to statesman utilizing subject unit against definite Latin American cause cartels that his medication has deemed violent organizations.”

‘There won’t beryllium an invasion’: Sheinbaum de-escalates aft Trump orders US subject to people cartels

That prompted Sheinbaum to reassure Mexicans that “the United States is not going to nonstop its subject into Mexico.”

“We cooperate [with the U.S. connected security], we collaborate, but determination volition beryllium nary invasion. That’s ruled retired … because, successful summation to what we’ve stated successful each our conversations, it’s not allowed, nor is it portion of immoderate agreement,” she said astatine her Aug. 8 property conference.

Last Friday, Sheinbaum declared that a U.S. airstrike against cartel targets successful Mexico “won’t happen” erstwhile asked astir the remarks DEA Administrator Terrance Cole made connected the topic.

Earlier successful August, the president said that a U.S. subject involution successful Mexico is “not connected the table,” and passim the period — and so during the entirety of her presidency to day — she has stressed that her authorities would ne'er judge immoderate benignant of usurpation of Mexico’s sovereignty.

Also successful August, Sheinbaum asserted that her authorities hasn’t entered into an statement with the DEA aft the U.S. bureau announced what it called a “bold bilateral inaugural to dismantle cartel gatekeepers and combat synthetic cause trafficking.”

Sheinbaum’s predominant pushback to U.S. announcements and rhetoric has occurred arsenic Trump and different U.S. officials person talked pugnacious astir their desire, and intention, to combat Mexican cartels that smuggle ample quantities of fentanyl and different narcotics into the U.S.

Sheinbaum revealed successful May that she had rejected an connection from the U.S. president to nonstop the U.S. service into Mexico to combat transgression groups specified arsenic the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, some of which are present designated arsenic overseas violent organizations by the U.S. government.

While the president has remained defiant successful her rhetoric and her absorption to immoderate benignant of U.S. subject involution successful Mexico, the Mexican authorities has allowed U.S. drones to alert implicit Mexico to assistance the combat against organized crime, including successful a formation heavy into Mexican territory this month.

President Sheinbaum has sent 10,000 National Guard troops to patrol the Mexico-U.S. borderline arsenic portion of an statement with the United States. (Galo Cañas Rodríguez/Cuartoscuro)

In addition, the Sheinbaum medication has sought to appease the U.S. authorities by deploying thousands of troops to the bluish borderline portion portion cracking down connected cartels with operations crossed the state that person resulted successful the arrests of thousands of suspects and the seizure of immense quantities of narcotics. It has besides sent much than 50 cartel figures to look justness successful the United States.

In May, Rubio praised Mexico for its efforts to combat cartels.

The unit connected Mexico from Trump, mostly successful the signifier of the menace — and imposition — of tariffs has been relentless. His medication has adjacent asserted that “Mexican cause trafficking organizations person an intolerable confederation with the authorities of Mexico,” and that “the authorities of Mexico has afforded harmless havens for the cartels to prosecute successful the manufacturing and proscription of unsafe narcotics.”

All these factors, and others, adhd up to a analyzable and tense bilateral information situation adjacent arsenic Sheinbaum and Trump support that they, and their governments, person a bully moving relationship.

The signing of a caller information pact betwixt Mexico and the United States should springiness greater clarity and renewed impetus to the associated combat against organized crime, but the complexity and hostility successful the information narration volition remain, arsenic volition the calls of immoderate U.S. officials and politicians — and immoderate Mexican ones arsenic good — for the U.S. to follow a much proactive, and adjacent bellicose, posture, against Mexican cartels.