from breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 18:32
https://lemmy.ca/post/60917202
President Trump has demanded President Claudia Sheinbaum confront the cartels. The killing of El Mencho suggests it might be working — but could come at a cost.
The killing of Mr. Oseguera shows how the tense interplay between Mr. Trump and Ms. Sheinbaum — two leaders with starkly different styles but an unlikely camaraderie — has fundamentally reshaped the U.S.-Mexico relationship, particularly on security.
“The pressure that Trump has put on her administration has been a force she’s taken advantage of,” said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a Mexican political analyst who studies U.S.-Mexico relations. “She wanted to change Mexico’s security, but Trump came at a very interesting moment to push her in that direction.”
Yet, Mr. Bravo added, Ms. Sheinbaum is also playing with fire.
“I don’t know if she wanted to go as far as she’s going,” he added. “This is clearly putting her administration under a lot of stress, and there is a big question now of what are the Mexican state’s capacities to govern the consequences of this operation.”
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Part of that problem is that Mexico did nothing serious against cartels in the past. As much as i dislike Trump, if he makes Mexico taking this key problem finally seriously, he at least made something worthy.
The cartels are a symptom of an external problem the Mexican government has no ability to address. For every leader they kill, one or more will pop up. Because there’s still a ton of money to be made selling drugs to trump, his kids, his administration, and all the normal people. Just trying to get through their day with the constant barrage of bullshit thrust on them by trump, his kids, his administration, and their enablers.