Overview
- In a Sept. 8 interview, the PAN senator said she never invited the United States to intervene in Mexico and called the accusation a lie.
- She welcomed cooperation against cartels within legal and diplomatic frameworks, adding she does not fear a U.S. troop deployment.
- Téllez intensified her critique of President Claudia Sheinbaum, describing the administration’s “second floor” as destruction and alleging the Republic has been left without a functioning judiciary.
- The interview referenced a Change.org campaign surpassing 350,000 signatures that urges her desafuero on grounds tied to the intervention claim, which she rejected.
- She said she has not decided whether to run for office in 2027 and highlighted recent Senate work focused on security and the selection of new Supreme Court ministers.