Mexican president downplays Trump’s claim that drug cartels run Mexico

MEXICO CITY, June 19– Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday downplayed the latest claim by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said at the G7 summit that drug cartels are totally running Mexico and she is “a very scared woman.”

At her daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sheinbaum avoided engaging in polemics regarding Trump’s comments made at the gathering in the French resort town of Evian-les-Bains on Wednesday.