Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveils her strategy to fight organized crime in a nation facing cartel wars, assassinations and massacres.

Rejecting a renewed “war” against drug traffickers, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday unveiled her strategy to battle organized crime in a nation where each day brings word of new assassinations, gang wars, massacres and other bloodshed.

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Instead, she outlined a four-point strategy that emphasized intelligence-gathering, troop deployment, improved federal-state coordination and providing opportunities to dissuade impoverished young people from joining organized crime — which is among Mexico’s major employers.

A centerpiece of the plan is doubling down on the often-criticized “hugs not bullets” strategy of Sheinbaum’s predecessor and mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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  • @ChickenstalkerEnglish
    -41•2 months ago

    Hang all drug dealers. That’s what we do in SEA. Note, drug dealers, not drug users.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
      14•2 months ago

      This is, frankly, a very ignorant take. What SEA does works because y’all only have drug dealers, not cartels. Mexican cartels are very powerful, more so than the government itself, and trying to cull them by force would throw the country into civil war.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•2 months ago

        They do have cartels but it’s usually the Chinese wealthy behind it. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Right, former president Rodrigo Duterte?

    • @[email protected]English
      11•2 months ago

      Yeah, let’s go live to Duterte now, how’d that plan go for him? Oh, it seems like there were a ton of extrajudicial killings that they couldn’t ever confirm to human rights groups if the people being murdered were actually drug dealers, or just political dissidents.

      Aw shucks, unfortunately it seems like empowering vigilante groups to murder anyone they perceived as a drug dealer without requiring investigations was a bad idea after all.

    • @thesporkeffectEnglish
      8•2 months ago

      Ah yes, violence famously does not beget further violence

      • @Death_EquityEnglish
        -1•2 months ago

        There will be no more deaths if you kill everybody, nuke the cartels.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•2 months ago

      I think that Mexico doesn’t presently have the death penalty.

      kagis

      Yeah.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Mexico

      Capital punishment in Mexico was officially abolished on 15 March 2005,[1] having not been used in civil cases since 1957, and in military cases since 1961. Mexico is the world’s most populous country to have completely abolished the death penalty.

    • @MaggotyEnglish
      5•2 months ago

      And that’s gone so well.

      /s