Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a ‘Mexico First’ policy
Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a ‘Mexico First’ policy
Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs.
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
96The 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
-9The 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
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mexico not fighting drug cartels is basically giving up in their civil war.
64This president has acted like he was owned by the cartels since day one. Good luck to any peace he thought that would bring. Seems like a disaster for their future in the long-term.
36Still a pretty funny line, though.
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What's with OP's pro-Trump editorializing? How does this article possibly serve as a defense of Trump's fascist "America First" policies?
50Mexico should legalize all drugs.
21The problem is, unless something is done about the cartels before hand, all that is going to do is legitimize them.
5Legalizing drugs doesn't mean there are no regulations. The FDA would have to control the quality of the drugs, and I bet the cartels don't exactly have quality control.
8Cartels make an estimated $20-30 billion a year selling drugs to the U.S.
If the FDA regulates and we make our own, you just cut out all that money from them. Their influence goes down greatly. Also feeds the money back into our economy and the taxes on it can help us line our politicians pockets, oops I mean help fund healthcare
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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?
12Mexico cutting off its nose to spite its face.
11I 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
6This 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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