“He’s just not doing it right.” – Smug Asshole Leftist Moron
Mexico’s leftist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador appears to be abandoning his “hugs not bullets” approach to dealing with Mexico’s violent crime problem that is fueled by the country’s notorious drug cartels.
AMLO’s shift in thinking was made apparent this week when surreal images emerged of thousands of Mexican soldiers conducting a large-scale operation to capture Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of notorious Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is also known as “El Chapo.”
The operation was so large in scale because the last time that the Mexican military captured Ovidio Guzmán in 2019, they were forced to let him go after hundreds of heavily armed cartel gunmen threatened to murder families and overrun the soldiers.
AMLO’s initial thinking reflected the thinking of some in the U.S. who believe that the war on drugs is ineffective and who do not want to escalate violent confrontations with criminal organizations.
Raúl Benítez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told The Wall Street Journal that this latest action marks an end to that way of thinking by Mexico’s president.
What waz your first clue?
Their crime rate should be improving since many of them are being ushered in to the USA; just setting up shop here. 🤬
Try teddy bears and soccer balls.
There is no significant borderland between the cartels and the Mexican government. They are thoroughly intermixed probably on all levels and certainly at the leadership level. Our government in border states at the very least is undoubtedly compromised by cartel money. Cleaning up the mess the two governments have enabled through misguided, often deliberately ineffective and certainly corrupt policies is not going to be easy or pretty. That is at least in part why it will not soon be attempted seriously.
have they tried “just say no?”