cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5804418
Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) made it clear yesterday that the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will not allow the participation of U.S. armed forces in operations within Mexican territory, emphasizing that bilateral collaboration on security matters will always be carried out with unrestricted respect for national sovereignty.
The Foreign Ministry’s position was issued in response to statements made hours earlier by the United States ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald Johnson, who affirmed that both countries are united as sovereign allies in confronting criminal cartels.
In its seven-point statement, the Foreign Ministry maintained that collaboration with the United States is based on principles such as mutual trust, shared responsibility, sovereign equality, respect for territorial integrity, and cooperation without subordination.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As much as I hate what the USA do, but helping people get rid of those cartels is something I would appreciate a lot. And I highly doubt their government is able to deal with that problem on their own, they are too powerful and murder any opposition. The same way North Korea is stuck in the middle of the 20th century.
ga_so_art@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The US can help stop the cartels by:
- Fixing its drug laws / policies so that American addicts can get help getting clean, and stop paying money for Mexican drugs. American drug demand fuels the Mexican cartels.
- Actually regulating gun and equipment trafficking from the US to Mexico. US weapons and ammunition flood Latin America, and the US does virtually nothing about it.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That would be a good start, no question.
echutaaa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The problem is the US wouldn’t get rid of them, they’d just do what they always do and prop up one as the defacto monopoly and use it to control the region. Drugs are to valuable to the justice system to let go.
switcheroo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now is not the time for ANYONE to be accepting help from the US. Mexico would be wise to say HELL FUCK NO and follow up with “if you come here, it’s an invasion and will start a war”.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Who do you think created and funded cartels?
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The answers are both the same, people that want more power.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
racism intensifies
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’d have to be very gullible to believe they’re going to do that. EXTREMELY so to believe That it’s ALL they’re going to do.
Probably much better at it than US soldiers with no background in law and little to no local connections.
The time when fighting organized violence with more organized violence was an effective strategy ended DECADES ago. If it ever started.
Ethics comparisons aside, saying that the cartels (whose leaders tend to be scrupulously anonymous or known chiefly by an alias/nickname) act in the same way as the hereditary cult of personality monarchy of North Korea is so untethered from the situation on the ground that it’s currently orbiting one of the moons of Saturn.