Mexico City, Mexico - Mexico on Saturday condemned the US strikes in Venezuela, saying any form of military action "seriously jeopardizes regional stability."

Mexico "strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally in recent hours by the armed forces of the United States of America against targets on the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has walked a fine line with US President Donald Trump and his tariff threats, also condemned what she called an "intervention."

In a television interview earlier, Trump warned Mexico to crack down on drug traffickers – the reason he gave for Washington's actions against Venezuela and its leader Nicolas Maduro, who was taken to New York to stand trial.

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Trump made clear in a Saturday press conference that regime change and controlling Venezuela's oil riches were the primary objectives of the operation in Caracas.

Sheinbaum, who had previously offered to mediate a peaceful resolution to the US-Venezuela standoff, noted that her government maintains "a very good relationship" with Washington.

Her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, added his voice to the condemnation of what he termed an "overbearing assault on the sovereignty of the people of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president."

In Mexico City, about 100 people gathered outside the US embassy to denounce the strikes, with some protesters painting anti-US graffiti on the compound's outer walls and others throwing rocks at the building.