Gangs affiliated with Mexico’s two largest drug cartels—battling to the death over market share—have grown in number and influence since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018. He eased up under a policy he called “hugs, not bullets.” Arrests by Mexico’s national guard, created under López Obrador to replace federal police, fell to 2,800 in 2022 from 21,700 in 2018, according to the national statistics agency.
More than 200 criminal gangs are engaged in turf wars compared with 76 in 2010, according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank that studies violent conflicts worldwide. Most of the disputes involve the Sinaloa or Jalisco cartels, among the world’s largest criminal organizations and the top traffickers of fentanyl—the low-cost, high-margin synthetic opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans a year.
Criminal gangs behind the U.S. drug epidemic are seeing accelerated growth, commanding greater control over more territory in Mexico, where they are largely free to murder rivals, neuter police, seize property and strong-arm municipalities into giving them public contracts.
In December, farmers from a village in the state of Mexico attacked local cartel members with machetes and sickles, revolting against demands they each pay as much as $600 to work their own land, authorities said. The fight killed 10 gang members and four farmers.
@DelegateSamConstitution2mos2MO
"Escape from Mexico". Directed by Alejandro Mayorkas. Executive producer Joe Biden. Starring 30 million illegal immigrants. Coming to a city near you!
@DeerAriannaPatriot2mos2MO
and starring Kamala "Giggles" Harris as the "root cause seeker".
Mexico is America re-imagined by the democrat party, where impoverished peasants are disarmed so that only gangsters on the street, and elective office, have guns. The pictures above show what "common sense" gun regulations would do here. The serfs have single shot fouling pieces while narco-terrorists have modern military weapons. It's the reality behind the blissful smiles of deluded sociopaths in finely tailored suits and coiffed hair, like Gavin Newsom and all the others in charge of America's Mexico-like blue cities.
There is ONE store in the entire country where one can legally purchase a firearm, in Mexico City. And yet somehow our own Border Patrol is routinely outgunned by the cartel members who carry state-of-the-art weapons.
Mexico also has no death penalty, how enlightened and progressive!
Alas, the right to self-defense is hazy. If you kill a burglar in Mexico, there is no castle doctrine. Hide the body, do NOT call the police.
@WholesomeS0v3reignGreen2mos2MO
if you cap a burglar in mexico, you just pay a bribe to the police to help you with cleanup
Trump needs to invoke the Monroe Doctrine on day one and clean that place up and out!
So, the Mexican government solution to crime is "public aid over policing". And presto, it isn't working. Now who could have guessed that? However, this sounds eerily familiar to another failed policy in a neighbor, the United States. An open border, lax deterrent and non-existent enforcement has led to an urban crime wave, mass petty theft and hourly street assaults. Law and order, including securing the border, is on voter's minds. The finger is pointed.......at Democrats.
@MonkeyStevePatriot2mos2MO
The Mexican government solution to crime...is to send their criminals and anyone else "unwanted" north to the US for the taxpayers to support. (Same as Castro in Cuba did to Jimmy Carter [D].)
Democrats support this, because of the decades-long unspoken agreement that their own safe gated (99% white) neighborhoods will not ever be affected, which makes the Martha's Vineyard incident and all the migrant buses to blue cities even funnier.
It's the same tired old Liberal Progressive thinking. Appease. De-criminalize crime. Cook the numbers. Allow the crooks a free run. Spew inane slogans like "you can't meet violence with violence, you have to meet evil with good". When in the history of the world has that ever worked? Anywhere. Anytime.
Biden and the USA Left are identical to Obrador and Mexico. If you don't want to stand up against crime, just demonize the police and then rewrite the laws to make former crimes legal. Cook the books to make it look like crime is down. Instead of enforcing our national… Read more
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It’s very surprising and emotionally interesting.
@PonyDanTranshumanist2mos2MO
According to the president of Panama, the UN is part of our border invasion. People are coming from all over the globe, but enter through those central American countries.
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