Emir Olivares, Alma E. Muñoz and Gustavo Castillo
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, July 24, 2025, p. 7
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo rejected that there are drones of Mexican organized crime groups flying over the border with the United States.
When asked about the alert launched by a senior official of the Department of Internal Security, who warned that It is a matter of time
For Mexican cartels to attack her country with that technology, the president emphasized that they do not have to worry, because there is a joint work and coordinated with Washington.
There is communication, there is collaboration. There would not have to be an additional concern, because what is there is occupation, no concern
he pointed out.
He stressed that a drone of the Mexican side was detected for a long time, but did not cross the border.
The head of the Secretariat of the Navy, Raymundo Morales Ángeles, said that the drones used by organized crime They are commercial devices and that have been used in some areas for criminal uses
.
Hours later, at conference, the Secretary of Citizen Security and Protection, Omar García Harfuch, said that Now we have no indication that drug trafficking seeks to attack with a drone some US authority on the border
.
