Summary
US companies exported 1.4 million tons of hazardous waste in 2022, nearly half of which went to Monterrey, Mexico.
Toxic substances from Zinc Nacional, a local recycling plant processing US steel dust, have polluted nearby homes, schools, and soil with lead, arsenic, and cadmium, exceeding US health thresholds by hundreds of times.
Experts call the waste trade “toxic colonialism,” citing Mexico’s weaker regulations and enforcement.
Residents report health issues, while the company claims compliance. Mexican authorities are investigating amid calls for stricter oversight and accountability.
Yeah no. The Mexican government has more than enough to be blamed for but saying that it’s 100% their fault is either hellish naive or just disingenuous.
The US drug policies have wrecked havoc on just about every Latin American country, but Colombia and Mexico have been hit the worst. The US arms policies makes it relatively easy to move heavy weaponry to Mexico from the US, that is if the US government isn’t sending these weapons themselves.
These policies still stand and with Trump coming in, I imagine they will just get worse.
All of that… would not do so much damage if the goverment had taken steps to protect… us and itself.
The problems you mention are not of this presidential term (I think not even from this century?), so you are telling me there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, we as a country could have done to fix those things… in more than 50 years?
Granted, maybe not completely fixed, but at least not moving backwards would be nice.
This gives me a perfect example, we can (and should) blame the backwards policies that are to come with president musk’s bitch, but the mexican goverment decided to completely ban every kind of vape in the name of heatlh, giving its control back to the narcos (allegedly to the son of their cult leader and that’s why they had to do it ASAP).
If someone steps on my hand, that’s their fault; if I do my best to keep my hand under that foot and even push it harder down, that’s on me.