This editorial by Pedro Mellado Rodríguez originally appeared in the November 21, 2025 edition of Sin Embargo. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of Mexico Solidarity Media*, or the Mexico Solidarity Project.*
The head of our country’s intelligence services, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, must pay close attention to the conduct of the United States Ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald Johnson, and those who form his court of collaborators, members of the opposition parties and the extreme right, who dream that at some point the Donald Trump administration will decide to invade us, under the pretext of fighting drug cartels in our territory.
We shouldn’t be naive. If Donald Trump’s concern were genuine, he would have started by cleaning up his own country of the immense and powerful networks that distribute and sell drugs; he would have disarmed the merchants of death and war who traffic the weapons that strengthen criminal gangs in Mexico; and he would imprison the white-collar hypocrites who launder billions of dollars in his country, proceeds of crime.
The fight against fentanyl traffickers is just a pretext, because the imperialist appetites for expansion into Latin America are more alive than ever, to overthrow legitimate and sovereign left-leaning governments that do not agree to assume the role of servants subjected to the whims of the orange man and the predatory gringo oligarchy that wakes up every day dreaming of dominating the world for the benefit of a privileged and rapacious minority.
Let’s not forget the profile of the current United States Ambassador to Mexico, published by the newspaper El País on December 14, 2024. “A graduate of the State University of New York and with a master’s degree from the National Intelligence University, Johnson has gained notoriety in Mexico for his military profile,” the Spanish newspaper published.
Ronald Johnson entered U.S. military service in Panama. In the 1980s, he was stationed in El Salvador as one of 55 U.S. military advisors in that country. “Johnson’s time in El Salvador draws numerous parallels with Mexico. Trump chose him to crack down on Central American gangs and with the explicit mission of containing migration flows. But also because his team was concerned about the rapprochement that Nayib Bukele, newly in power, had established with China. These are all points that remain relevant in the Republican’s stance toward his neighbor,” explains the newspaper El País.
The current US Ambassador to Mexico also became a specialist in covert operations as a member of the special operations group, informally known as the “Green Berets”: the elite of the US forces. From the Army, he moved to the CIA, the US Central Intelligence Agency, the sinister organization that, under official cover, destabilizes governments and overthrows legitimate presidents.
The Death Squad Diplomat, Ronald Johnson.
Ronald Johnson, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, worked for two decades as an operative deployed in high-risk areas, from Iraq to Afghanistan, including the Balkans, a region heavily influenced by the former Soviet Union. There, in the 1990s, he was part of an operations group dedicated to the search and capture of those accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. At the Central Intelligence Agency, he rose to head the Aviation, Ground, Maritime, and Paramilitary departments, and led paratrooper operations. He also served as an advisor to Southern Command, which oversees Latin America, with the exception of Mexico.
The Mexican government must ensure that U.S. agents strictly comply with the provisions of the National Security Law. This law stipulates that foreign agents must observe, among other things, the following provisions: “They may only carry out liaison activities for the exchange of information with Mexican authorities in accordance with the terms of the accreditation issued to them.”
Furthermore, foreign agents have the obligation to “inform the appropriate Mexican authorities, in accordance with the respective international cooperation agreements signed by the Mexican State on security matters and which contribute to preserving National Security, of the information they obtain in the exercise of their functions.”
Foreign agents must “submit a monthly report to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Security and Citizen Protection regarding matters related to bilateral cooperation agreements signed by the Mexican State in the area of security that contribute to preserving National Security. This report must include the activities and actions they undertake with the various federal, state, and municipal authorities. In all cases, they must maintain the confidentiality of the information they obtain as a result of the application of the bilateral cooperation agreements, in accordance with the terms established therein.”
Those who represent the sinister CIA and DEA agencies in Mexico cannot be directly involved in police activities in our territory, as they are prohibited from carrying out or inducing third parties to carry out arrests, actions aimed at depriving people of their liberty, trespassing on private property, or any other conduct that violates the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and applicable national laws.
Our National Security Law warns that foreign agents commissioned in our country may be severely sanctioned: “The Government of Mexico will supervise, at all times, the compliance by Foreign Agents with legal obligations and those derived from bilateral agreements signed by the Mexican State in matters of security and that contribute to preserving National Security.”
The label of traitor to the nation fits many obliging and obsequious collaborators of the empire perfectly: our government would be ill-advised to act naively in the face of the bellicose diplomacy of the US Ambassador and the Donald Trump administration, who lovingly shelter these sellouts.
And the same law states that “when in the judgment of the Mexican authorities a foreign agent fails to comply with the general and specific provisions applicable to him, the Government of Mexico will request his withdrawal from the government of the accrediting State and he will be subject to the sanctions that are applicable in terms of Mexican laws.”
The Mexican government, based on the National Security Law, can suspend cooperation agreements it has with other countries, and in particular with the United States, when certain legal principles are violated.
“Article 74.- When it is proven that a foreign government, through its agents, incites or promotes the commission of offenses consisting of bribery, unlawful deprivation of liberty, or the abduction of inhabitants from the national territory to be tried before another State, the Mexican State shall suspend the execution of the relevant bilateral cooperation agreements and prohibit the carrying out of activities by the Foreign Agents within the national territory. Where applicable, the individuals who have engaged in the aforementioned conduct shall be held responsible in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.”
Our government must also be vigilant in punishing those who commit the crime of treason, since opposition figures in Mexico—in political parties, supposedly citizen organizations, and the media—periodically express their hope that Donald Trump will take action against the Fourth Transformation government, without ruling out armed intervention. In their statements, these Mexicans are committing the crime of treason.
What does our Federal Penal Code stipulate regarding the crime of Treason? Article 123 of the Penal Code states that “a prison sentence of five to forty years and a fine of up to fifty thousand pesos will be imposed on any Mexican who commits treason” in any of the following cases: “Performs acts against the independence, sovereignty, or integrity of the Mexican Nation with the purpose of subjecting it to a foreign person, group, or government; forms part of armed groups directed or advised by foreigners; organized within or outside the country, when their purpose is to threaten the independence of the Republic, its sovereignty, its freedom, or its territorial integrity, or to invade the national territory, even if there is no declaration of war.”
Those who “provide a foreign state or armed groups led by foreigners with the human or material resources to invade national territory; who request the intervention or establishment of a protectorate by a foreign state or request that a foreign state wage war against Mexico” may also be punished for treason. Of course, the list of traitors to the nation also includes anyone who “invites individuals from another state to take up arms against Mexico or invade national territory, whatever the reason may be.”
As you can see, the label of traitor to the nation fits many obliging and obsequious collaborators of the empire perfectly. Our government would be ill-advised to act naively and in good faith in the face of the bellicose diplomacy of the US Ambassador and the Donald Trump administration, who lovingly shelter these sellouts.
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