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As United States President Donald Trump promises to crack down on the illegal drug trade from Latin America, US troops appeared to arrive this week on a beach in northeast Mexico where they installed signs declaring the area \u201crestricted\u201d by the US Department of Defense.<\/p>\n
Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, have been engaged in a back-and-forth war of words over the threat of US strikes on what it says are drug cartels in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Here is a closer look at what has happened and what it all means.<\/p>\n
On Monday, unidentified men arrived via boat at a beach in northeast Mexico, where they planted signs in the sand\u00a0<\/strong>reading: \u201cWarning: Restricted Area\u201d in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n The precise location of the beach has not been confirmed by either side, but a video<\/a> circulating on social media and local news purports to show Mexican marines removing the signs. The video is described as footage from a beach frequented by locals and fishermen, known as Playa Bagdad, in an area where the Rio Grande, a river which originates in south-central Colorado in the US, flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Al Jazeera has not been able to verify this video.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8 Incidente en Playa Bagdad, Matamoros<\/p>\n Pescadores denunciaron que presuntos militares o personal de EE.UU. cruzaron el R\u00edo Bravo en lancha y colocaron 6 letreros de \u201c\u00c1rea Restringida del Departamento de Defensa\u201d.\n
La Marina mexicana los retir\u00f3 de inmediato y restableci\u00f3 el\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/v8ai7eKNCO<\/a><\/p>\n