Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a ‘Mexico First’ policy
apnews.com
Remember when Trump said "America First" and everyone cried? Pepperidge Farms remembers..
Remember when Trump said "America First" and everyone cried? Pepperidge Farms remembers..
Okay but you SHOULD be doing something about the fucking cartels...speaking as a Mexican American
Sounds like they are. They're going to let America fight its drug war in America.
They're not though, they have constantly capitulated to the cartels over the last few years and more. The cartels are literal terrorist scum and should be wiped the fuck out
Except it isn't that easy to just "wipe them out". It'd be like dealing with a very well armed, very large resistance movement and would probably start a civil war. Without support from somewhere (like the US) it would be political (and probably regular) suicide
with a lot of Chinese gangs helping them
And american institutions.
The US drug war, as well as decades of funding dictators and death squads, created the instabilities that contributed to the creation of the cartels.
You're on crazy pills/ignorant as fuck if you think it is on Latin America to clean up our fuckin mess
The US should focus on defunding them and any local support but by no means should the US do anything on Mexicos soil. Legalizing and regulating drugs locally would cut a lot of their funding I imagine. Long term it would also probably help the immigration numbers as well. Especially is we placed tariffs that enticed companies to not ship products from China but rather if they must use labor elsewhere to make it more profitable to move their manufacturing from China to Mexico/South America. It would help the regions and decrease shipping distance cutting back on environmental impacts.
Edit: typo, defunding became defending
What's with OP's pro-Trump editorializing? How does this article possibly serve as a defense of Trump's fascist "America First" policies?
He said that, then put Trump first. What did he do for America besides racist rhetoric, a few miles of border wall that apparently doesn't work, and fast tracked a COVID vaccine you won't take?
Mexico cutting off its nose to spite its face.
I think it's gone under the radar for most people just how massive and powerful the cartels have gotten over the last 10 years, all aided by crypto. Now that they don't have to worry about trucking dollars over borders, they can basically operate like multinational corporations
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Of course we are going to cooperate in fighting drugs, above all because it has become a very sensitive, very sad humanitarian issue, because a lot of young people are dying in the United States because of fentanyl,” the president said.
Asked about those comments at the time, residents of one town in the western Mexico state of Michoacan who have lived under drug cartel control for years reacted with disgust and disbelief.
López Obrador has also made a point of visiting the township of Badiraguato in Sinaloa state, the home of drug lords like Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, at least a half dozen times, and pledging to do so again before he leaves office in September.
But it did note the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Friday on a Sinaloa Cartel money-laundering network in which the proceeds of fentanyl sales were used to buy shipments of cell phones in the United States, which were then sold in Mexico.
John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, credited “strong partnership with the government of Mexico, with which we coordinated closely and for which, we are grateful,” in investigating that case.
The cartels control increasingly large swathes of territory both in northern Mexico — their traditional base — and in southern states like Guerrero, Michoacan, Chiapas and Veracruz.
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