India, Feb. 2 -- Hours after US President Donald Trump announced broad tariffs on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico and China while citing a "major threat" from illegal immigration and drugs, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo rejected the "White House's slander" against her government."

If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the United States armories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups, Mexico President Sheinbaum said, adding that it has been demonstrated by the US Department of Justice itself in January of this year.

"We categorically reject the White House's slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention in our ...