Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed reports of a potential U.S. “soft invasion” to combat cartels as “entirely a movie,” emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty as a free, independent nation.
The Rolling Stone report claims Donald Trump’s incoming administration is considering covert military operations in Mexico, including airstrikes and assassinations of cartel leaders.
While Trump and key officials like Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio support such measures, experts warn they could backfire by boosting cartel recruitment, undermining Mexican sovereignty, and fostering cartel-Mexican authority collaboration.
I think even if the US legalized all drugs today the cartels would still be in business. Human smuggling, human trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, and even avocados! The genie has been out of the bottle for a very long time.
Avocados tell you what the end game is. The cartels are going to use their money hordes to form corporations. Then they will buy out the government to take over Mexican sovereignty. That’s how the US “defeated” organized crime.
Flashbacks to the United Fruit Company… Wait, I don’t even have to go that far… Flashbacks to Chiquita Brands International.
You do realize cartels and human trafficking groups exist because there’s a high demand of that in the USA?
Yes. Unfortunately human trafficking doesn’t go away when you legalize prostitution. You still need to do a lot of police work to track down the traffickers and free the victims.
It becomes easier when you can go to the police and you don’t get thrown in jail for the job you were doing.
You’d be surprised at how much the traffickers can adapt to this. They keep their victims in a group, renting out hotel rooms, constantly moving from place to place. The victims never know where they are, not even what city they’re in. They don’t have any local contacts, no social network, no supports. They basically have to work up the courage to escape from men (whom they believe will kill them) and run to the police in a completely unfamiliar city with no help.
Ending prohibition ended the reign of that generation of American gangsters though. Beyond that, I’m for a whole bunch of bleeding heart pinko policies. Open borders for example, a Pan-American Schengen.