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
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
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.
Mexico cutting off its nose to spite its face.
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This 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.
Mexico should legalize all drugs.
USA should legalize all drugs.
Everywhere should legalize all drugs.
Tax that shit and put the money into rehab and education. Prohibition has only ever benefited criminals.
Nah, decriminalise all drugs sure.
But shit like fentanyl, krokodil, etc. shouldn’t be actively promoted through ease of access.
Nobody is taking fentanyl or krokodil in world where uncut medical-grade opiates are available. Hell, even fentanyl can be dosed safely if it isn’t coming from the unregulated black market.
Full legalization, full-stop. Drugs are so dangerous because we prohibit the existence of a safe, regulated market.
How the hell do you dose fentanyl safely outside of a clinical context? You cannot discern a lethal dose from a nonlethal dose with the naked eye.
Legalized doesn’t mean unregulated, people went blind during prohibition due to dangerous moonshine but it’s incredibly rare now as it’s brought from licensed manufacturers.
It’s a property of fentanyl itself. I’m saying that outside of a clinical context, you don’t have the instrumentation necessary to dose it.
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.
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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