Mexico’s president says ‘there will be no invasion … it’s absolutely off the table’ after news reports of order
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has rejected the idea that the US might invade Mexico after news reports suggested Donald Trump had authorized the use of military force targeting drug cartels deemed terrorist organizations in Latin American countries.
“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with their military,” she said during a daily news conference on Friday. “We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion. It’s off the table, absolutely off the table.”
The Mexican president said her government had been informed of the executive order but insisted that “it had nothing to do with the participation of any military or any institution on our territory. There is no risk that they will invade our territory.”
The cartels are an evil scourge without a trace of humanity. Nothing of value will be lost if they’re swept off the board. I hope their buttholes are puckering at the thought of Delta and SEAL teams kicking down their doors.
The most effective way to dismantle criminal organizations of any nature is not by guns and bullets but by eliminating their markets.
People resort to drugs out of despair and disinformation. They either want an escape of reality or they want to “have fun” and they disregard or ignore the trap drugs represent.
Give to people security and a good life, inform and educate them, create safety nets for them to crash when things go wrong and 90% of drug trafficking and related crime just disappears. The other 10% you keep at bay by having good, humane, well trained police, on which the population can trust and rely.
Going for an all out war on cartels is a nighmare waiting to happen, at your door.
Sometimes people just take drugs because drugs are fun … Not all of them are despairing or desperate…
The gross majority I am fairly confident they are.
But if you think recreational drugs are fine, campaign for them to be legalized, just like tobbacco, alcohol and guns. And pot. Those have been legalized. Less trouble when something is properly regulated.
Where I live, they haven’t all been. I suspect many feel about guns and pot the same way as you feel about drugs that haven’t been legalised in your area.
Anyway, legalisation of drugs isn’t the hard bit, it’s the regulation that can be tricky to get right…
Indeed, the Swiss did it and they were quite successful.
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“Future doctor and engineer” is the current racist dog whistle isn’t it?
You’re completely missing the point.
Maybe (I won’t be weighing in any further), but can we at the very least agree that Mexico isn’t doing enough?
You can do your bit by buying locally produced drugs. You’ll also be supporting the community by creating work for American criminals.
We can. They are failling to do what I first mentioned.
Maybe they would do better if their northern neighbors stopped importing their drugs.
How would you feel about Mexican military doing operations in the US?
It would ideally be a combined operation, obviously. Mexico either can’t or refuses to clean house. If the cartels are spilling over the border then the US has every right to excise them at the source bin Laden style.
How little you value the sovereignty of other nations.
Yeah, I value the eradication of murderous scum over sovereignty. Guilty as charged.
Soooo, murderous scum that would invade other nations?
Aaaah so when do you planning to commit suicide?
What the fuck are you even talking about? What organisation has the US wiped out with this approach? Last I checked the Taliban is still going.
The cartels are violent organisations that are deeply embedded in Mexico. Killing a bunch of them won’t resolve the actual problems that facilitated their rise.
Ffs. It’s like someone walked out of a time machine from 2002 and started spouting posy-9/11 rhetoric. And I’m reminded of just how fucking stupid everyone was back then. Read a fucking book.
Spoken like a cartel spokesperson. They paying you in coke? :P
You sound like one of these Duterte idiots. “Just kill them all bro it’ll work”
How would you feel if a foreign power invaded your country to spy and destabilize your government and economy under the pretext of a supposed war on drugs, using what is evidently the wrong tools and methods for the supposed job?
Then we have the right to bomb the US, do we. Just imagine all the dead yank, lmao.
So… about the Zetas…