The Mexico Thread

[eradicator]

 

[Northern Pilgrim]

Most of them seem to think they are the main character and thus have plot armor. That's why they go crazy once they realize the world doesn't revolve around them and few, if any, people truly care or think about them at all.

 

[LaAguilaNegra]

Mexico needs to do like Bukele. Round up every cartel affilated person in the population, and imprison them for life. This requires imprisoning them for life simply for known affiliation with the cartels, without the usual process of trial and conviction of a specific crime.

If this is not done, the cartels will rule, and Mexico will continue to be a hellhole like El Salvador used to be. The cartel members should be considered like pirates in the old days: enemies of humanity to be executed immediately, or imprisoned immediately for life as the modern alternative.

The take-away from the Bukele success story is that mopping up powerful criminal gangs and networks is no small feat yet at the same time achievable in a relatively short timeframe and that a positive result rests on political will, popular support and resilience.

Alternatively there is a subsection of the internet that is pushes the defeatist idea that the Mexican Cartels are too powerful to be taken head on by the Mexican State. This is of course absurd, and that too is why El Salvador is a lightning beak and blueprint - Bukele broke MS-13 and the other bad hombres within weeks of saying he would do so.

The idea that a non-state actor with limited outside and domestic support could successfully take on a large middle income country with all its levers of power is absurd. The Mexican state has far superior firepower, intel gathering and assessment capabilities, MIC and manufacturing capacity, manpower, and logistics. If the right person sits in the National Palace it can be done in a few months at the longest.

 

[LaAguilaNegra]

Sheinbaum is obviously not the right woman, she's compromised at best and in cahoots with the Cartels at worst. That latest statement she interprets as slander bytheway, Sheinbaum is considering suing Elon Musk because Musk called her the equivalent of a narco-Prez. A few days ago, prior to El Mencho's demise, Sheinbaum stated that she would not take on the Cartels because this would mean human rights violations.

Also of importance: in his State of the Union DJT mentioned the El Mencho raid and kinda took credit for it. This would somewhat make sense as the US has a history of engaging in these type of covert operations without aiming involvement and releasing info to the public

 

[Dusty]

 

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The part at the bottom says that the Sinaloa cartel paid her to approve the operation to capture El Mencho.