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Remember when Trump said “America First” and everyone cried? Pepperidge Farms remembers…
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Mexico cutting off its nose to spite its face.
mexico not fighting drug cartels is basically giving up in their civil war.
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.
Still a pretty funny line, though.
He said that, then put Trump first. What did he do for America besides racist rhetoric, a few miles of border wall that apparently doesn’t work, and fast tracked a COVID vaccine you won’t take?
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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What’s with OP’s pro-Trump editorializing? How does this article possibly serve as a defense of Trump’s fascist “America First” policies?
I think it’s gone under the radar for most people just how massive and powerful the cartels have gotten over the last 10 years, all aided by crypto. Now that they don’t have to worry about trucking dollars over borders, they can basically operate like multinational corporations
Okay but you SHOULD be doing something about the fucking cartels…speaking as a Mexican American
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
with a lot of Chinese gangs helping them
And american institutions.
