ZK686@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoMexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a ‘Mexico First’ policyapnews.commessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down114file-text
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minus-squareSpacemanspliff@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoThe problem is, unless something is done about the cartels before hand, all that is going to do is legitimize them.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoWhen your entire industry is illegal in almost all of the world, it suddenly becoming legal tends to hurt the black market very badly.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThey should be granted amnesty in exchange for disarmament, among other things to drag them into legitimacy and abiding rule of law. It would have to be an undertaking comparable in scope to denazification post-WWII though.
The problem is, unless something is done about the cartels before hand, all that is going to do is legitimize them.
When your entire industry is illegal in almost all of the world, it suddenly becoming legal tends to hurt the black market very badly.
They should be granted amnesty in exchange for disarmament, among other things to drag them into legitimacy and abiding rule of law. It would have to be an undertaking comparable in scope to denazification post-WWII though.