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 “restricted” by the US Department of Defense.

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.

Here is a closer look at what has happened and what it all means.

What happened?

On Monday, unidentified men arrived via boat at a beach in northeast Mexico, where they planted signs in the sand reading: “Warning: Restricted Area” in English and Spanish.

The precise location of the beach has not been confirmed by either side, but a vide

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