When nations are powerfully united by elementary elements of their historical past, tradition, and financial system, when hundreds of thousands of households stay on each side of the border, as is the case of Mexico and the United States, it is extremely tough to suppose individually to make choices that have an effect on each nations.
Forty million Mexicans stay within the United States right this moment.
There can be a authorized framework in place: the T-MEC, the free commerce settlement between the 2 nations (and Canada), and the doc containing particular clauses about safety.
The concept that the United States might assist Mexico, with its businesses and even its military, to defeat widespread enemies, akin to drug trafficking, is just not new and has many precedents, together with a current and drastic one within the Trump administration (2016-2020).
According to Mark Esper – former Secretary of Defense – in a ebook titled “A Sacred Oath”, Trump, then US President, in mid-2020, proposed “launching missiles clandestinely into Mexico to destroy drug laboratories and end the cartels”.
But a 12 months earlier, in November 2019, Trump had mentioned that his administration had been working for 90 days to reclassify Mexican narcos as “terrorists,” which includes a sophisticated course of.
This was within the wake of the homicide of 9 members of the Mormon LeBaron household of Mexican and US nationalities.
On November 4, 2019, three moms and their infants or kids have been massacred in Sonora, in a strip the place the Sinaloa Cartel and the group “La Linea” battle for management.
This household requested the White House to think about the cartels as terrorists.
In this context, a number of days in the past, an initiative emerged within the US Congress, promoted by a number of Republican legislators, akin to Dan Crenshaw from Texas, and Michael Waltz, from Florida, which assumes the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
This notion was intensified with the current kidnapping within the northern border state of Tamaulipas of 4 US residents (two of them have been later launched, and the opposite two have been murdered) allegedly by one of many drug cartels working there.
Dan Crenshaw addressed a message to the socialist president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who, after all, shouted in protection of nationwide “sovereignty” within the face of such an initiative, which he referred to as “interferenceist”.
He requested him, “Why are you protecting the cartels?”
López Obrador took issues additional and threatened to arrange a marketing campaign in opposition to the Republican Party if its members insisted that the US authorities classify the cartels as “terrorists.”
“Stop defending your narco cronies and take action to prevent fentanyl trafficking. Calm down with your lies about a supposed ‘military invasion.’ We just want our military forces to work together. Or would you rather Mexico be conquered by the narcos?” tweeted Crenshaw on March 10.
Cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking from Mexico to the United States lately was unhealthy sufficient.
Methamphetamine overdose deaths within the US tripled between 2015 and 2019, however then the manufacturing, trafficking, and consumption of a extra severe substance, akin to fentanyl, elevated.
According to statistics supplied by Dr. Enrique Cifuentes García -doctor in public well being at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and who works at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York-, in 2021, “107,622 people” died from overdoses within the United States, which implies a rise of 15% in comparison with 2020.
But, warns the scientist, “by 2030, there could be an accumulation of two million” deaths from fentanyl.
At the identical time, it’s onerous to consider that the uncooked supplies to course of fentanyl come from China (to Mexico) with out the communist authorities noticing this and stopping it when it’s a regime that controls all the things to the utmost and that has a facial expertise registry of its whole inhabitants.
This drives the concept, as we have now written, fentanyl is being utilized by the Xi Jinping authorities, in a technique or one other, as a geostrategic weapon to have an effect on the US inhabitants, have an effect on public well being, and decimate individuals.
According to information from the US Department of Justice, there are presently at the least 5 thousand locations the place fentanyl, various substances to the drug or the weather to provide it, the so-called precursors, are produced in China.
William Barr, former US Attorney General, warned that AMLO’s authorities had misplaced management of Mexico to drug trafficking.
“They have lost control of the country, in my opinion. They (narcos) have tens of billions of dollars. They can corrupt whoever they want, and they have armies dressed like the military and armored vehicles,” he instructed Fox News.
Barr additionally claimed to have traveled to Mexico to attempt to toughen AMLO’s stance on the narcos as a result of the socialist president solely believes in hugs, however all the things remained the identical.
The former prosecutor additionally pointed to the so-called “Culiacanazo”, an episode wherein Mexican authorities had already arrested Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, and now imprisoned within the US, after which launched him within the face of stress from the felony group.
“He summoned 700 paramilitaries with machine guns mounted on trucks to repel the forces of law and order,” he recalled.
In addition, only a few days in the past, on March 8, the US Office of National Intelligence assessed that in some components of Mexico, “criminal organizations use their economic power to influence election results, as well as intimidate politicians,” one thing it had not beforehand said.
In one other interview with Barr on Fox community, the previous official thought of that after the kidnapping and homicide of his fellow residents in Tamaulipas, drug cartels must be handled the identical as ISIS “because they are terrorists”.
Ted Cruz, Republican Senator for Texas, mentioned, “Biden is the best thing that has happened to the Mexican cartels”.
This is as a result of he has turned the narcoterrorists into billionaires.
And he wields as an argument that in 2018, in response to the New York Times, the Mexican cartels obtained US$500 million, which is some huge cash, however in 2022, they managed to acquire US$13 billion.
That is, 2600% extra.
Half of that cash is made by the cartels in human trafficking and the opposite half in drug trafficking.
So due to this fact, if AMLO undertakes a smear marketing campaign in opposition to the Republican Party, he might be serving to Biden with malice aforethought and benefit in his doable reelection and the Democratic Party basically, with which, not directly, the narcoterrorists will proceed to profit.
But additionally, after all, the Chinese regime, which has Mexico as an outsourced battle situation in opposition to the United States, is searching for to consolidate itself as a brand new navy, financial and cultural hegemony and is not directly utilizing the Mexican narcoterrorists and fentanyl to drive the nation of the courageous and the courageous into the bottom.
With data from LGI