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Reuters: “Romantic tryst led to the capture and death of Mexican drug lord El Mencho.” Suddenly the erasure of drug cartel boss El Mencho is a big deal or he’s a hero to the (new) Left as did dictator Nicanor Maduro? All because it was Donald Trump who took them down? And Washington’s anti-cartel work in Mexico is a first-time operation? Hey, the U.S. and Mexico have always been at work together in pursuit of narcos. U.S. money has always been spent on several anti-drug programs across the border for many years.
U.S./Mexico anti-cartel cooperation. Operation Condor in the mid-1970s was meant to eradicate or weaken the Golden Triangle of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua. The heat heightened in the 1980s after the murder of DEA agent Kiki Macarena during the reign of cartel boss Felix Gallardo. Then there was 2006’s Operation Michoacan that led to the Merida Initiative in 2007, which Joe Biden abolished and replaced with the Bicentennial Framework in 2021.
Apparently, Joe Biden’s “holistic” Bicentennial Framework (2021), replacement to the Merida Initiative, was too "lenient.” Drug cartels facilitated a record number of border crossings from that year to 2024: 4+ million in 4 years! The difference with Mr Trump's Project Portero? President Claudia Sheinbaum's willingness to carry things out compared with her predecessors. Narcopolitics is a major problem in Mexico. Ex-prez Enrique Nieto received at least a $100 million bribe from El Chapo, for example. Etc etcetera.
My question to the Left: Are we against illegal drugs or are we against Donald Trump? Take note as well that drug trafficking has direct links to human trafficking. Those migrants who cross the borders, via cartel facilitation and coyote “deliveries” to wherever, are technically trafficked humanity. But why are we quiet about all these? Because this is supposed to be the handiwork of Mr Trump? Hey, U.S./Mexico anti-cartel programs are a historical fact although The D seems more intent to pursue it. 🇺🇸☮️🇲🇽
