By Gloria Ogbonna
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday firmly rejected claims made in The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, the latest book by #1 New York Times bestselling investigative journalist and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer.
The book alleges that the Mexican government has used its extensive network of consulates in the United States to influence American elections—an accusation Sheinbaum categorically denied.
Speaking during a press conference, Sheinbaum dismissed the reporting and declined to mention Schweizer by name, instead referring to him only as “a person who wrote a book.”
She also pointed to a statement released the previous day by Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, which rejected the book’s claims and reaffirmed Mexico’s official position.
“Yesterday, the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs issued a statement,” Sheinbaum said. “It involves a person who wrote a book, claiming that through our consulates, we are engaging in politics for or within the United States.” She then flatly rejected the allegation, stating, “This is absolutely false.”
According to Sheinbaum, Mexico’s consulates operate strictly within the bounds of international law and diplomatic norms. She emphasized that their primary mission is to provide assistance, protection, and support to Mexican nationals living in the United States.
“Consulates have a role determined by international laws,” she said. “What our consulates essentially do is provide protection and assistance to Mexicans in the United States. That is their job; it is fundamental, and that is what they are dedicated to do.”
Sheinbaum went on to stress that Mexico does not interfere in U.S. domestic politics and expects the same respect for its own sovereignty. “We categorically deny that they are doing anything related to U.S. politics,” she said.
“We are very respectful. If we demand non-intervention from other countries, we obviously comply with that constitutional principle ourselves.”
In an apparent effort to further distance the allegations from the current U.S. political landscape, Sheinbaum also claimed that Schweizer has no connection to President Donald Trump’s administration.
“This is an individual who has nothing to do with President Trump’s administration,” she said. That assertion comes despite the fact that Trump has publicly promoted The Invisible Coup and encouraged Americans to read the book.
In The Invisible Coup, Schweizer argues that Mexico’s vast diplomatic footprint in the United States more than 50 consulates nationwide has been leveraged for political purposes.
He writes that the Mexican government is “blatantly interfering in our domestic politics,” alleging that it has worked alongside American political consultants to mobilize both legal and illegal migrants as a political force inside the United States.
Schweizer highlights actions taken by former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as particularly striking examples. According to the book, AMLO toured several U.S. cities in February 2017 with the explicit aim of rallying Mexican migrants against President Donald Trump’s border and immigration policies.
Schweizer argues that those policies significantly reduced drug cartel profits by tightening enforcement at the southern border.
The book further claims that AMLO went so far as to propose transforming Mexico’s consulates into migrant defense offices an idea Schweizer describes as unprecedented.
Such a move, he writes, would represent a direct lobbying effort by a neighboring country’s leader against a sitting American president.
“AMLO was not simply aiding migrants in their legal battles in the United States; he was calling for and working toward an electoral change inside the U.S.,” Schweizer writes.
“A foreign leader so brazenly interfering in American politics was unprecedented, at least from a country with which the United States was not at war.”
While Sheinbaum has strongly denied these allegations, the claims outlined in The Invisible Coup continue to fuel debate over immigration, foreign influence, and the role of diplomatic institutions in U.S. domestic politics.
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