https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/mexico-s-president-says-he-won-t-fight-drug-cartels-on-us-orders-calls-it-a-mexico-first-policy/ar-BB1knfRW
" Mexico's president said Friday he won't fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs."
"Over the years, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador has laid out various justifications for his "hugs, not bullets" policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the past he has said "you cannot fight violence with violence," and on other occasions he has argued the government has to address "the causes" of drug cartel violence, ascribing them to poverty or a lack of opportunities."
" "We are not going to act as policemen for any foreign government," Lpez Obrador said at his daily news briefing. "Mexico First. Our home comes first."
"Lpez Obrador basically argued that drugs were a U.S. problem, not a Mexican one. He offered to help limit the flow of drugs into the United States, but only, he said, on humanitarian grounds."
"Of course we are going to cooperate in fighting drugs, above all because it has become a very sensitive, very sad humanitarian issue, because a lot of young people are dying in the United States because of fentanyl," the president said. Over 70,000 Americans die annually because of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which are mainly made in Mexico from precursor chemicals smuggled in from China."
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Or it could be that he's bought and paid for with cartel money.
" Mexico's president said Friday he won't fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs."
"Over the years, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador has laid out various justifications for his "hugs, not bullets" policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the past he has said "you cannot fight violence with violence," and on other occasions he has argued the government has to address "the causes" of drug cartel violence, ascribing them to poverty or a lack of opportunities."
" "We are not going to act as policemen for any foreign government," Lpez Obrador said at his daily news briefing. "Mexico First. Our home comes first."
"Lpez Obrador basically argued that drugs were a U.S. problem, not a Mexican one. He offered to help limit the flow of drugs into the United States, but only, he said, on humanitarian grounds."
"Of course we are going to cooperate in fighting drugs, above all because it has become a very sensitive, very sad humanitarian issue, because a lot of young people are dying in the United States because of fentanyl," the president said. Over 70,000 Americans die annually because of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which are mainly made in Mexico from precursor chemicals smuggled in from China."
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Or it could be that he's bought and paid for with cartel money.
“If you’re going to have crime it should at least be organized crime”
-Havelock Vetinari
-Havelock Vetinari
