Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?

• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, my point is that they don’t have a political ideology.

  Like, the IRA was bombing things because the goal was Irish independence. They wanted the UK out of Northern Ireland.

  Al Qaeda was bombing things to get the US out of the middle east. They wanted no US troops on Arab soil.

  Boko Haram wanted an area to be fully under Muslim law, with no western books or education.

  That’s the normal definition of terrorism, a group that’s terrorizing the population in pursuit of a political aim of some kind. It isn’t normally considered terrorism if there’s no ideology involved, and it’s just in defence of a criminal enterprise.

  In the case of the narcos, I don’t know of any political aim. I don’t think they have any particular ideology, other than “we want to keep making money selling drugs to Americans”. To a certain extent, I can see how they could be considered terrorists because they’re terrorizing the population, the courts and the government to get their way. But, in the past there has normally been a line drawn between a terrorist organization and a criminal organization.

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