• RubberDuck
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    Yes, Mexico moves 10k reserves to the border… to twiddle their thumbs there. And Canada agreed to invest 1.5 billion in the border they already agreed to with Biden. Epic win!

      • RubberDuck
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        31 month ago

        Yeah, how to combat the narcos is a real issue… I’m willing to bet military force won’t solve it though.

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          War on drugs certainly is not the answer to problem. Education & harm reduction, decriminalization, and supply-side testing (re: no accidental fent in your coke) would be a welcomed cultural shift forward. Prohibition will only continue to dig us deeper with folks in prison, murder, and underground trafficking schemes.

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            The problem for Mexico is that it can’t really take any steps on its own to solve this problem.

            The failed US drugs policy results in a huge demand for illegal drugs. That results in big payouts to anybody trafficking the drugs across the border. All that contraband flowing for huge money results in powerful crime bosses. If Mexico completely legalized all drugs, it wouldn’t do much because the demand is coming from the US, not Mexico.

            Mexico would love to shut off the flow of drugs into the US, because that’s the reason their country is so dangerous and violent. Without that lucrative drug smuggling route, there wouldn’t be rich, powerful narcos with their own private armies.

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            I’d imagine mexico needs an El Salvador type approach. Not a Duterte type approach …

            And a prison for these people on Clarion.

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        You understand the role of the narcos is narcotic trafficking, and not a blanket name for “the bad hombres” across the border? The Mexican National Guard being present at the border can and will hamper the drug traffic to the north, and I don’t see how they will ‘give them to the same narcos’.

        If anything, is the county and state forces that would do shit like that, because they’re easier to corrupt and often work with the drug cartels in their region because if they don’t cooperate, they will be fired, with gunshots.