Mexican version of the altercation between the army and the Americans in Texas

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) gave his version of the incident occurred on April 13 at the fence between Mexico and the United States, where supposedly A group of Mexican soldiers clashed with the US military in US territory.

According to the statement, Mexican elements reprimanded two US soldiers traveling in a vehicle without identification because they thought they had not respected the boundaries of the border.

However, the SRE confirmed that US soldiers were on US territory and explained that the confusion was due to the fact that, in this area, the borders of the border "they are not clear for their geography"

"These types of incidents are common because it's a regular patrol check, without consequences for the two governments, which maintain a permanent and fluid communication. At this event, they were in direct and timely contact, "added the Foreign Ministry.

The North Command statement sent Tuesday to The badociated press noted that, according to the investigation of the Ministry of Defense and CBP, the incident occurred in the US territory south of the border fence, but north of the real border.

According to the weekly Newsweek, who was the first to report the incident, one of the Mexican soldiers He removed the service weapon from the hip sleeve to a US military and threw it into the vehicle.

"After a brief discussion between the soldiers of both countries, the Mexican army has left the region," Northern Command explained. "Immediately, US soldiers contacted the CPB, who responded as quickly as possible.

"Better not to breed!": Donald Trump

President of the United States, Donald Trump, said the Wednesday morning incident was probably "a tactic of distraction for border drug traffickers"

"Better not to reproduce! Now we are sending armed soldiers to the border"badured the governor.

On the decision to send armed soldiers to the border, Olga Sánchez Cordero, secretary of the government, said: "It's his country and he makes the decisions unilaterally"

For its part, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, insisted his usual prudence at the time of approaching the subject and the tense relationship with the United States.

"We will not fall into any provocation; I say to President Donald Trump that we want to have respectful and friendly relations with his government, that we will badyze this incident, we will take into account what he says and act in accordance with the law in force. of our sovereignty, but the most important thing is to say that we will not fight against the United States government. Most importantly, we want a relationship of mutual respect and cooperation and, as we know for several months, We will continue to act to maintain cordial and good-neighborly relations with the Government and the people of the United States, "he said at his press conference in the morning.

This is not the first time that altercations take place on the US-Mexican border armed with the authorities. In 2012, for example, Border Patrol Officer Lonnie Swartz fired the Mexican side, José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who killed him.

The case was brought to court and almost six years after the fact, Swartz was found innocent.