The Mexican left -wing “Trump Whisperer” Claudia Sheinbaum is hard and flexible for cartels in the store but increasingly back in the corner

The sale of Trump joined the office, the newly elected Mexican president was praised and even dubbed some kind of “Trump Whisperer” for being able to compensate for the onslaught of American tariffs that caused the wound to other economies forg. Sheinbaum did so by taking the cartels heavier hands than its predecessors and adding dozens of associated cartels to the US authorities and making it to reduce fetanyl seizures on the American border.

It was an exchange that she said on Thursday that she hopes to formalize. When both leaders spoke in February, Trump tied Fentanyl coming from Mexico to a tariff threat, she said.

“So what do we offer?” Sheinbaum said at her morning press conference on Thursday. “If this problem decreases, then we obviously want to see that 25% (tariff) is shrinking.”

But now, Obers says Sheinbaum is increasingly supported against the wall. Michael Shifter, an older colleague in inter -American dialogue, said Sheinbaum must now walk a “fine line” with Trump, who seems to be more complicated.

“There is a complete relationship that hangs over the relationship,” Shifter said. “Sheinbaum is likely to feel incredibly frustrated because she has taken the main steps to solve cartels. And it seems that Trump is never enough.”

Stops signing an agreement

Just the day before, Sheinbaum gives with US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio during his visit to Mexico, in which leaders discuss security issues and agreed to continue working to fight crime.

For weeks, Sheinbaum shot to sign a formal security agrement with an underground importer of respect for Mexican sovereignty, with a hope of clear rules in the middle of Trump’s foreign policy tactics.

The pressure on the safety agreement came when Sheinbaum repeatedly and publicly refused Trump Administration offers to send us soldiers to fight cartels. Her meeting with Rubius came just after Trump’s administration made a strike in the South Caribbean and killed 11 people who claimed to have traded drugs to the US, something Rubio said was intended as a warning.

“I think the idea that it has agrement is to create and build parameters,” said Carin Zissis, temporary director of Washington of America’s Council. “You can see why Claudia Sheinbaum would emphasize sovereignty when Minister Rubio emphasized the US military attack on the alleged ship in the Caribbean on his way to visit Mexico.”

“American shoes on the ground is a very specific concern about the Mexican side,” she said.

But it was clear to Wednesday that both governments would not sign formal agriculture. Instead, they announced a group of Mexican and US officials at high levels to monitor their cooperation. It was not clear how much change that would be newly made, given that Mexican officials regularly met with the sale of Trump’s administration in January.

“It looks like a fantastic term that means nothing, but it means a lot,” Rubio said about the newly established common group.

Lack of concessions

Palmira Tapia, a political analyst for the Mexican Center for Economic Research and Teaching, said it was a sign that while Sheinbaum watched the promise to intervene on the cartels, Trump probably did not make many concessions to the Mexican leader.

Just last month Trump Glubly said Press that “Mexico is doing what we tell them to do” and said last weekend that while he liked Sheinbaum, he subordinated that Mexico was still running cartels.

“There are really incentives for Trump,” Tapia said. “His winning strategy was to get what he wanted, with the threat of tariffs.”

It is left Sheinbaum with several alternatives at a time when tension reached the peak in Latin America because of the American strike in the Caribbean.

This step has lost the feathers of rows of leaders throughout Latin America who are still struggling with complicated heritage and violent falling down the last US intervention in the region. After meeting with the Rubie, the Mexican government again reminded Trump’s administration of the importance of traffic in the region “without subordination” and respecting allies.

However, Zissis and other observers said that while Trump’s administration showed that Little was willing to ground Grande, Sheinbaum had several cards on his sleeve.

One, long used by the Mexican government, helped the US in block migration flows north. The second is Sheinbaum’s increasing level of popularity in Mexico City, while public opinion surveys show that it boasts anywhere between 70% and 80% by approval.

At the same time, they stated that Sheinbaum had little space to radically move his strategy towards Trump.

“It is a very delicate balance, because at the same time that this relationship can handle so well is so much for Mexico,” Zissis said.

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