American agents killed in a road accident in Mexico did not have authorization to intervene

The mystery deepens around the death of two US agents killed in a road accident in Mexico after an operation against drug trafficking. According to the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, they did not have authorization to intervene in the country.

“One of the two deceased entered the country as a ‘visitor’ and the other did so ‘with a diplomatic passport’,” the ministry stated in a press release. CBS and other American media outlets had claimed that they were CIA agents, the American agency responsible for foreign intelligence. Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, stated that they were “two embassy staff members.”

Antidrug Operation The deaths of the two Americans and two Mexican officials in a road accident in northern Mexico, following a large operation against drug trafficking, were announced by the prosecutor’s office last Sunday.

They had participated on Friday and Saturday in a raid against six clandestine laboratories of synthetic drugs in Morelos, in the state of Chihuahua, bordering the United States, after a three-month investigation, according to the prosecutor. Their car, part of a convoy of five vehicles, skidded and plunged into a ravine.

Two Versions In an initial version on Sunday, the prosecutor of the state of Chihuahua, César Jáuregui, had stated that Mexican soldiers and members of the Chihuahua State Investigation Agency were also in the convoy. He then explained that the American agents were “training officers” conducting “training tasks.”

But on Tuesday, Jáuregui provided a new version. He indicated that the Americans were providing “a course on the use of drones” in a location about six hours away from where the operation took place. According to him, the American agents had then “requested to be able to travel with the convoy” of a group of state police officers returning from the antidrug operation.

National Security Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Tuesday that the federal prosecutor’s office was investigating potential violations of national security. “Any activity carried out by American agencies on our territory must respect Mexican laws regarding national security and be authorized by the federal government,” she emphasized.

Under pressure from the government of US President Donald Trump, Mexico has strengthened its antidrug cooperation with the United States in recent months and extradited dozens of drug traffickers to its northern neighbor.