Mexico's president on Tuesday ruled out allowing US strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after US President Donald Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to stop drugs entering the US. 'It's not going to happen,' President Claudia Sheinbaum said. 'He (Trump) has suggested it on various occasions or he has said, we offer you a United States military intervention in Mexico, whatever you need to fight the criminal groups,'' she said.

'But I have told him on every occasion that we can collaborate, that they can help us with information they have, but that we operate in our territory, that we do not accept any intervention by a foreign government.' Sheinbaum said she had said this to Trump and to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on previous occasions and that they have understood.