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... "If the flow of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico were stopped, these groups wouldn't have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities," President Claudia Sheinabum said at her daily news conference, citing a statistic from the U.S. Department of Justice that 75% of guns used by criminal groups in Mexico were smuggled from the United States.

Sheinbaum -- whose stated strategy has been to keep a "cool head" in the face of Trump's repeated verbal broadsides -- was responding to a question about Trump's latest threats to deploy military assets against cartels in her country. Trump made the threat while speaking at a meeting of the newly inaugurated "Americas Counter Cartel Coalition."

The confab featured some of Trump's favored right-wing leaders, such as President Javier Milei of Argentina and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.

Not invited were the left-wing presidents of Latin America's three most populous nations, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. ...