Defense rejects that US military aircraft to fly over Mexican territory
Hours after the agreement agreed between Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, president of Mexico, and Donald Trumppresident of the United States, on the pause to the application of tariffs to Mexican goods, the presence of a plane belonging to the US Air Force that, supposedly, flew over the Mexican territory. Given the situation, the Ministry of National Defense (Defense) reported that the flight made tours of international waters.
Minutes after 1:00 pm, there was a registration of the overflow of an aircraft belonging to the United States Air Force inside the California Gulf, near Sinaloa. For this reason, various sources assured that the vehicle was found on Mexican territory.
Despite this, the Ministry of National Defense (Defense) reported that the plane Boeing RC-135V Rivet Joint Detected at 1:41 p.m. by the Mazatlan Area Control Center, it took a tour of international waters, in the immediate vicinity of Cabo San Lucas, in Baja California Sur.
“At 1:41 p.m., the Mazatlan Area Control Center informed the National Air Space Surveillance and Protection Center (CENAVI) that detected a 83 km flight southwest of Cabo San LucasBaja California Sur, outside Mexican airspace on international waters“, They wrote in their verified account of the social network X, formerly Twitter.
It is worth mentioning that the plane Boeing RC-135V It is a recognition aircraft manufactured by the American company of the same name for the United States Air Force. It is designed to collect information in flight within the area where it is deployed thanks to the sensors installed in the fuselage. Similarly, he is capable of analyze and disseminate information for the purpose of intelligence In real time.
The route of the aircraft would have been from south to north, to cross points in the vicinity of Sinaloa to the border with the state of Sonora. Subsequently, he took a 180 degree turn to return along the same path, surround the Baja California peninsula and return to the United States.
Although Mexican authorities have not given information about the objective or reason for the presence of the United States Air Force plane in international waters near the Mexican territory, the news was known after Donald Trump He signed one Executive order to classify organized crime groups as terrorist organizations. Similarly, the president Claudia Sheinbaum He showed the will to cooperate with the United States authorities in the fight against organized crime, although without subordination.