Americas ‘do not belong’ to any power — Mexican president
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her daily morning press conference after US strikes on Venezuela, at the National Palace in Mexico City on January 5, 2026. (Photo by Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP)
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January 5, 2026

Americas ‘do not belong’ to any power — Mexican president

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP)—The Americas “do not belong” to any power, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday after US counterpart Donald Trump invoked Washington’s “dominance” of the hemisphere after seizing Venezuela’s leader in a military raid.

Trump described the weekend US military operation against leftist Nicolas Maduro as an update of the Monroe Doctrine: the 1823 declaration by fifth US president James Monroe that Latin America was closed to other powers, which at the time meant Europe.

Sheinbaum hit back Monday, saying: “The Americas do not belong to any doctrine or any power. The American continent belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that comprise it.”

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