Both the CIA and the Mexican government have rejected a CNN report alleging that US intelligence operatives have "directly participated" in targeted killings of drug cartel members on Mexican soil, including a car bombing in March that reportedly killed a Sinaloa Cartel member. The CIA called the report "false and salacious," while Mexico's Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said his government "categorically rejects" any suggestion of covert or unilateral lethal operations by foreign agencies in the country, though he acknowledged that US-Mexico security cooperation does exist under principles of shared sovereignty. The denials come amid heightened tensions between the two countries over the Trump administration's aggressive anti-cartel campaign, which has included designating major Mexican trafficking organisations as terrorist groups and conducting airstrikes on suspected drug-running vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific.