Mexico seeks to ease tensions over deaths of US officials in car crash

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sought to de-escalate tensions with the U.S. on Thursday after the deaths of two Americans, who sources say were CIA officers working on an anti-narcotics operation, in a car crash in the northern state of Chihuahua.



The U.S. has acknowledged that two members of its embassy in Mexico City were killed in Mexico on Sunday, without disclosing what government agency employed them. The CIA declined to comment on the matter.



Sheinbaum reiterated her condolences in her daily press conference, following criticism on Wednesday from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said that "sympathy (for the dead U.S. officials) ... would be well worth it" after being asked about Mexico's demands for more information on what

exactly the Americans were doing.