Por Natasha Bertrand y Jim Sciutto, CNN

Dos funcionarios de la embajada estadounidense que murieron en un accidente automovilístico en México el domingo trabajaban para la CIA y colaboraban con funcionarios mexicanos en la ampliación de las operaciones antidrogas en el país, según confirmaron a CNN dos personas con conocimiento del caso.

Dos funcionarios mexicanos, pertenecientes a la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) de Chihuahua, también fallecieron en el accidente. Los agentes de la CIA y los funcionarios mexicanos regresaban de una redada antidrogas en el municipio de Morelos cuando su vehículo se estrelló en la carretera Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez, según los primeros informes.

Las circunstancias del accidente aún se investigan, indicó una de las personas con conocimiento del caso.

CNN solicitó comentarios a la CIA, pero hasta ahora no ha obtenido respuestas.

El Washington Post fue el primero en informar que trabajaban para la CIA.

La presidenta mexicana, Claudia Sheinbaum, declaró el lunes que su gobierno desconocía cualquier colaboración directa entre el estado de Chihuahua y personal de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en México.

“La relación es federal, no estatal”, afirmó. “Deben contar con la autorización del gobierno federal para esta colaboración, la cual necesariamente se lleva a cabo a nivel estatal, según lo establece la Constitución”.

El embajador de Estados Unidos en México publicó el domingo en X que “estamos profundamente consternados por la trágica pérdida de dos miembros del personal de la Embajada de Estados Unidos, el director de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) de Chihuahua y un oficial de la AEI en este accidente”.

Añadió que “esta tragedia es un solemne recordatorio de los riesgos que enfrentan los funcionarios mexicanos y estadounidenses dedicados a proteger a nuestras comunidades”.

La CIA ha expandido significativamente sus operaciones en México bajo la dirección de John Ratcliffe, y la administración Trump ha trabajado ampliamente para reorientar una amplia gama de facultades y recursos antiterroristas hacia la lucha contra los cárteles a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México y dentro del propio territorio mexicano.

Según informó CNN, la CIA comenzó a utilizar drones MQ-9 Reaper de forma encubierta sobre México para espiar a los cárteles de la droga el año pasado y también llevó a cabo una revisión de sus facultades para usar la fuerza letal contra estos cárteles en el país.

La agencia declaró a CNN el año pasado que “combatir a los cárteles de la droga en México y en la región es una prioridad para la CIA como parte de los esfuerzos más amplios de la Administración Trump para acabar con la grave amenaza del narcotráfico. El director Ratcliffe está decidido a poner la experiencia única de la CIA al servicio de este desafío multifacético”.

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By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump made false claims about inflation and birthright citizenship in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning.

Inflation

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen correctly informed Trump that while there were significant price increases during former President Joe Biden’s administration, the inflation rate “was down to about where it is now, about 3%,” by the time Biden was leaving office.

Trump responded with a false claim: “No it wasn’t. It was down to 5%, it wasn’t down to 3%.”

Kernen was right, Trump was wrong. The year-over-year inflation rate in the month of Trump’s inauguration, January 2025, was 3.0%. It was 2.9% in December 2024, Biden’s last full month in office. It hadn’t been close to 5% since early 2023.

Trump then elaborated by making another false claim. He said, “And the reason it was down was because I had won the election, and it started falling after I won the election. And I started getting prices down from right after November 5.”

But prices did not actually start falling right after his election in November 2024. In fact, even the inflation rate didn’t drop right after his election. The year-over-year inflation rate rose from 2.6% in pre-election October 2024 to 2.7% in November 2024. It then rose further, to 2.9%, in December 2024.

Birthright citizenship

Trump repeated his long-debunked lie that “no country in the world” offers birthright citizenship other than the United States. In reality, about three dozen countries provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil, including US neighbors Canada and Mexico and the majority of South American countries.

CNN and various other outlets previously debunked the claim when Trump made it during his presidential campaign in 2015 and during his first presidency in 2018.

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By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump made false claims about inflation and birthright citizenship in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning.

Inflation

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen correctly informed Trump that while there were significant price increases during former President Joe Biden’s administration, the inflation rate “was down to about where it is now, about 3%,” by the time Biden was leaving office.

Trump responded with a false claim: “No it wasn’t. It was down to 5%, it wasn’t down to 3%.”

Kernen was right, Trump was wrong. The year-over-year inflation rate in the month of Trump’s inauguration, January 2025, was 3.0%. It was 2.9% in December 2024, Biden’s last full month in office. It hadn’t been close to 5% since early 2023.

Trump then elaborated by making another false claim. He said, “And the reason it was down was because I had won the election, and it started falling after I won the election. And I started getting prices down from right after November 5.”

But prices did not actually start falling right after his election in November 2024. In fact, even the inflation rate didn’t drop right after his election. The year-over-year inflation rate rose from 2.6% in pre-election October 2024 to 2.7% in November 2024. It then rose further, to 2.9%, in December 2024.

Birthright citizenship

Trump repeated his long-debunked lie that “no country in the world” offers birthright citizenship other than the United States. In reality, about three dozen countries provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil, including US neighbors Canada and Mexico and the majority of South American countries.

CNN and various other outlets previously debunked the claim when Trump made it during his presidential campaign in 2015 and during his first presidency in 2018.

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By Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto, CNN

(CNN) — The two US embassy officials who died in a car accident in Mexico on Sunday worked for the CIA and had been collaborating with Mexican officials on expanded counternarcotics operations in the country, two people briefed on the matter confirmed to CNN.

Two Mexican officials who were part of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI) were also killed in the accident. The CIA officers and the Mexican officials were returning from a drug raid in the municipality of Morelos when their car crashed on the Chihuahua–Ciudad Juárez highway, according to initial reports.

The circumstances of the accident are still under investigation, said one of the people briefed.

CNN has asked the CIA for comment.

The Washington Post was first to report they worked for the CIA.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that her government had been “unaware of any direct collaboration between the state of Chihuahua and personnel from the US Embassy in Mexico.”

“The relationship is federal, not state,” she said. “They must have authorization from the federal government for this collaboration, which necessarily takes place at the state level, as established by the Constitution.”

The US Ambassador to Mexico posted on X on Sunday that “we are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of two U.S. Embassy personnel, the Director of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI), and an AEI officer in this accident.”

He added that “this tragedy is a solemn reminder of the risks faced by those Mexican and U.S. officials who are dedicated to protecting our communities.”

The CIA has significantly expanded its operations in Mexico under Director John Ratcliffe, and the Trump administration has broadly worked to shift a wide range of counterterrorism authorities and resources to counter-cartel work along the US-Mexico border and inside Mexico itself.

The CIA began covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels last year and also undertook a review of its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels in the country, CNN has reported.

The agency told CNN last year that “countering drug cartels in Mexico and regionally is a priority for CIA as a part of the Trump Administration’s broader efforts to end the grave threat from narco-trafficking. Director Ratcliffe is determined to put CIA’s unique expertise to work against this multifaceted challenge.”

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