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.
How does a country get this under control? If you assemble a crack team of professional Intel/gunfighters/breaching team, all the gang leaders will do is target their families or other things around them. In a firefight, they outnumber your team thousands to one. You can’t assemble a large fighting force (standing army) without them knowing and stopping you/ infiltrating ranks. You can’t ask another nation to help - you run into basically us/Soviet’s in Afghanistan where they’re seen as occupiers, and generate resentment among even your supporters.
I understand the change probably has to come from within, but how does a government convince the lowest common person to not fall under the organized crime’s strong influence to keep people in line?
Build the economy and fund education and social programs. Fight corruption hard.
Its not glamorous or exciting but its what works in the long run.
Why do people turn to crime? Maybe a few idolize Pablo Escobar and the like, but the vast majority are trying to get by, feed their families and bring their kids through school. If legal work has you slaving away for a pittance that won’t even feed your family and corrupt governments take away money meant for the betterment of the community you start to see why some people stop caring or see illicit means as their only way out of poverty.
Education. An educated populace means a skilled workforce, which leads to better paying jobs and a chance out of poverty. I don’t think the choice between a good paying job in an international pharmaceutical company and a dangerous drug lab is a difficult one when you have legitimate options on the table.
What to say to avoid decapitation while formulating a plan, maybe
“No war on narcos”
Instead, she outlined a four-point strategy that emphasized intelligence-gathering, troop deployment,
Sounds a bit warlike to me.
In any case, I hope her plan has a positive effect.
Its not a war, its a police action.
Hang all drug dealers. That’s what we do in SEA. Note, drug dealers, not drug users.
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.
I must have missed the hanging part but you do murder the innocent due to “drugs.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Kian_delos_Santos,_Carl_Arnaiz_and_Reynaldo_de_Guzman
Previous president of the Philippines had a campaign to kill drug users,
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.
They do have cartels but it’s usually Chinese wealthy behind it. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Right, former president Rodrigo Duterte?
How do you hang people at sea?
I think Chickenstalker probably meant SEA=South East Asia
I think they were being deliberately obtuse but I could be wrong
Oh
Ah yes, violence famously does not beget further violence
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.
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