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President Sheinbaum drops legal threat vs Musk

Agence France-Presse · Mar 13, 2026, 4:23 AM

ELON Musk speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. — ALLISON ROBBERT/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that she’s dropping a potential lawsuit against Elon Musk for a message on X in which he accused her of working for drug cartels.

On 23 February, after the powerful drug lord Nemesio Oseguera “El Mencho” was killed in a military operation in Mexico, the president gave a speech addressing the raid, to which Musk responded by saying, “she’s just saying what her cartel bosses tell her to say.”