Claudia Sheinbaum says she agreed to send 10,000 troops to ‘prevent drug trafficking’ in deal to stave off threat of levies

The US president, Donald Trump, and his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, have announced a one-month “pause” in threatened US tariffs after what Sheinbaum described as a “a good conversation” between the two leaders.

The US president upended ties between the countries over the weekend when he announced the 25% levies and accused Sheinbaum’s administration of engaging in an “intolerable alliance” with Mexican crime groups.