2026-04-21T06:20:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·希因鲍姆周一表示，她将就周末发生的一起事故中，美墨官员在奇瓦瓦州北部身亡的具体情况要求作出解释。她指出，任何未经联邦政府许可的地方政府与美国的联合合作，都将违反墨西哥法律。
这起车祸发生在一处农村地区销毁秘密毒品实验室的行动之后，重新引发了关于美国在墨西哥安全行动中参与程度的辩论。希因鲍姆、地方官员以及美国大使馆的表态看似相互矛盾，有时甚至前后不一，且对遇难的美国官员细节披露极少，进一步加剧了外界的猜测。
“这并非安全内阁知晓的行动，”希因鲍姆对记者表示，“我们事先未获通知；这是奇瓦瓦州政府做出的决定。”
此时正值两国邻邦关系的关键节点：墨西哥面临特朗普政府打击贩毒集团的升级压力，而希因鲍姆一直在强调墨西哥的主权。
希因鲍姆表示，在周日的人员遇难事件后，她的政府将对这起事件展开调查，以确保无人违反法律。她补充道，根据宪法规定，各州政府与美国及其他外国实体开展合作，必须获得墨西哥联邦政府的授权。
山坡车祸
奇瓦瓦州总检察长塞萨尔·豪雷吉周日表示，涉事官员在结束摧毁犯罪集团制毒实验室的行动后返程途中遭遇事故。他们在午夜时分驾车行驶在连接奇瓦瓦州与锡那罗亚州的崎岖山地时，“似乎在某个路段打滑，坠入峡谷并引发爆炸”。
他表示，遇难的四人包括两名墨西哥当地调查官员和两名美国大使馆教官，他们当时正在参与常规的“培训工作”。
在一份新闻稿中，奇瓦瓦州总检察长办公室公布了两名遇难墨西哥官员的身份：州调查局第一指挥官佩德罗·罗曼·奥塞格拉·塞万提斯，以及警官曼努埃尔·赫拉罗·门德斯·蒙特斯。
美国大使馆周一拒绝透露遇难美国官员的身份或其所属的美国政府部门，但表示这些官员“正在支持奇瓦瓦州当局打击贩毒集团的行动”。美国驻墨西哥大使罗纳德·约翰逊在社交媒体上表达了哀悼，但他和其他官员几乎未透露事件的具体细节。
“我们致敬他们的奉献精神，以及他们为应对我们这个时代最严峻挑战之一所付出的不懈努力，”约翰逊说道，“这场悲剧沉痛地提醒我们，致力于保护我们社区的墨西哥和美国官员所面临的风险。”
豪雷吉称，此次行动是在州检察官和墨西哥联邦军方数月调查之后开展的，这表明希因鲍姆领导的安全部队至少在一定程度上参与了此次行动。数小时后，墨西哥安全内阁证实，军方和州检察官办公室周末在奇瓦瓦州的莫雷洛斯地区开展了联合行动，捣毁了制毒实验室。
墨西哥官员表示，在莫雷洛斯和瓜乔奇之间的山区发现了甲基苯丙胺实验室。奇瓦瓦州调查局供图
豪雷吉补充道，工作人员利用无人机定位实验室后，发现了数吨制毒原料，但未发现相关人员，他们很可能事先得到消息并逃离了现场。
这位地方官员随后改口，向媒体澄清“在 securing 制毒实验室的行动中没有美国特工”，并表示大使馆官员是在行动结束后才加入队伍，当时距离行动地点已有数小时车程。
豪雷吉称这些实验室是“该国发现的最大规模化学毒品生产窝点之一”。
再起争议
希因鲍姆表示，她的政府将在掌握更多细节后公布更多信息，但周一坚称“墨西哥境内没有任何陆地或空中联合行动”。她表示，两国政府之间仅存在信息共享，且是在“完善的”法律框架内进行的。
尽管美国官员训练墨西哥安全部队的情况十分常见，但他们在墨西哥领土上的存在一直是持续争论的话题，而特朗普政府在委内瑞拉和伊朗的军事行动更是加剧了这一争议。
特朗普曾多次表示将对墨西哥贩毒集团采取行动，希因鲍姆称这种干预“毫无必要”。特朗普政府已在厄瓜多尔启动联合军事行动，该国近年来深受贩毒团伙暴力活动的困扰。
去年，希因鲍姆曾表示，在就该问题发表了一系列相互矛盾的公开声明后，美国应墨西哥的要求开展了无人机监视飞行，这也引发了观察人士的警惕。
最近一次争议发生在今年1月，加拿大前运动员瑞安·韦丁在墨西哥被拘留，他是美国头号通缉逃犯之一。墨西哥官员称他是在美国大使馆自首，但美国当局则称其被捕是两国联合行动的结果。
此次事件发生在美墨关系的关键时期。美国、墨西哥和加拿大自由贸易协定（USMCA）的第二轮谈判原计划在墨西哥城启动。美国代表团由贸易代表贾米森·格里尔率领，他原定于周一与墨西哥总统会面。
就在同一天，特朗普政府还宣布对锡那罗亚贩毒集团成员的家属实施签证限制。
在特朗普威胁可能采取军事行动打击墨西哥境内贩毒集团后，墨西哥近几个月来已捣毁了多个制毒窝点。
今年2月，墨西哥海军人员在该国杜兰戈地区发现一处隐蔽的制毒实验室，并“销毁”了超过5000磅甲基苯丙胺。今年1月，当局宣布在杜兰戈、锡那罗亚和米却肯州的秘密实验室中缴获超过1500磅冰毒。
Mexico demands answers after U.S. officials killed in car crash following drug lab raid: “We were not informed”
2026-04-21T06:20:00-0400 / CBS/AP
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations over what U.S. and Mexican officials were doing in northern Chihuahua when they died in an accident over the weekend, noting that any joint collaborations between the local government and the U.S. without federal permission would be a violation of Mexican law.
The crash, following an operation to destroy a clandestine drug lab in a rural area, has reignited a debate over the extent of U.S. involvement in Mexican security operations. Speculation was only fueled by Sheinbaum, local officials and the U.S. Embassy appearing to contradict each other and at times themselves, and offering sparse details about the U.S. officials who died.
“It was not an operation that the security cabinet was aware of,” Sheinbaum told journalists. “We were not informed; it was a decision by the Chihuahua government.”
It comes at a key moment for the relationship between the two neighboring nations as Mexico faces escalating pressure from President Trump’s crackdown on cartels, and as Sheinbaum underscores Mexico’s sovereignty.
Sheinbaum said her government would investigate the incident to ensure no laws were broken after the deaths on Sunday, adding that state governments must have authorization from Mexico’s federal government to collaborate with U.S. and other foreign entities “as established by the Constitution.”
A mountainside car crash
Chihuahua Attorney General César Jáuregui said Sunday the officials died while returning from the operation to destroy labs of criminal groups. They were driving in the middle of the night through rugged mountain territory connecting Chihuahua to the state of Sinaloa, when the truck “appears to have skidded at some point and fell into a ravine, exploding.”
He said the four who died were two local Mexican investigative officials and two U.S. Embassy instructors who were participating in routine “training work.”
In a news release, the state attorney general’s office identified two of the crash victims as first commander of the state investigation agency Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes and officer Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes.
The U.S. Embassy on Monday declined to identify who the U.S. officials were or which entity of the U.S. government they worked for, but said the officials were “supporting Chihuahua state authorities’ efforts to combat cartel operations.” U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson expressed his condolences on social media but he and other officials provided few details of the incident.
“We honor their dedication and tireless efforts to confront one of the greatest challenges of our time,” Johnson said. “This tragedy is a solemn reminder of the risks faced by those Mexican and U.S. officials who are dedicated to protecting our communities.
Jáuregui said that the operation came following months of investigation by state prosecutors and Mexico’s federal military, indicating there was at least some level of involvement in the operation from Sheinbaum’s security forces. Hours later, the Mexican Security Cabinet confirmed that the army and state prosecutor’s office carried out a joint operation over the weekend in Chihuahua dismantling drug labs in the same location, Morelos.
Methamphetamine labs were found in the mountains between Morelos and Guachochi, Mexican officials said. Chihuahua State Investigation Agency
After locating the labs using drones, officials found tons of material to manufacture drugs but no people, who were likely alerted beforehand and fled, the prosecutor added.
The local official later backtracked and clarified to press that there “were no U.S. agents in the operation to secure the narco-lab,” and said the embassy officials joined the group after the operation and were several hours away from where the action took place.
Jáuregui called the labs “one of the largest sites found in the country where chemical drugs were produced.”
A resurfaced debate
Sheinbaum said her government would provide more information when it has more details, but insisted Monday that “there are no joint operations on land or in the air” in Mexico. She said there is only sharing of information between her government and the U.S., carried out within a “well-established” legal framework.
While U.S. officials’ training of Mexican security forces is common, their presence on Mexican territory has been the subject of ongoing debate, which has intensified after Mr. Trump’s military actions in Venezuela and Iran.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly offered to take action on Mexican cartels, intervention which Sheinbaum has said was “unnecessary. ” The Trump administration has already launched joint military operations in Ecuador, a country that has been roiled by violence by drug gangs in recent years.
Last year, Sheinbaum said the U.S. had conducted surveillance drone flights at Mexico’s request after a series of conflicting public statements on the issue, also sparking alarm among observers.
The most recent controversy surfaced in January over the detention in Mexico of former Canadian athlete Ryan Wedding, one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives. While Mexican officials claim he surrendered at the U.S. Embassy, U.S. authorities have described his capture as the result of a binational operation.
The recent debacle comes at a pivotal time in U.S.-Mexico relations. The second round of negotiations between the United States and Mexico on the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, the USMCA, was slated to begin in Mexico City. The U.S. delegation is led by Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who was scheduled to meet with the president on Monday.
That same day, the Trump administration also announced it was imposing visa restrictions on family members of the Cartel de Sinaloa.
Mexico has announced the dismantling of numerous drug labs in recent months after Mr. Trump threatened possible military action to curb cartels in the country.
In February, Mexican naval personnel discovered a hidden drug laboratory in the country’s Durango region and “neutralized” over 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine. In January, authorities announced more than 1,500 pounds of meth were seized from clandestine laboratories in the states of Durango, Sinaloa and Michoacán.