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>It is a type of direct attack on officers seldom seen outside of the most gang-plagued nations of Central America and poses the most direct challenge yet to Pr
by ratsmack 5y ago
>It is a type of direct attack on officers seldom seen outside of the most gang-plagued nations of Central America and poses the most direct challenge yet to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policy of avoiding violence and rejecting any war on the cartels.
Why would the Mexican President not want to just get rid of the cartels?
- ceilingcorner 5y agoBecause they’ve been doing that, with not great results. This new guy got elected partially on this new approach.
- mannerheim 5y agoCould be working for the cartels.
- asdff 5y agoVery very senior officials in Mexican government get busted for corruption all the time. It would not surprise me if this president was bought. Most recently, the former minister of defence who runs the entire army, the war against the cartel, and reports directly to the president, was arrested by the DEA. https://www.lamag.com/article/mexican-military-arrest-lax/ https://www.lamag.com/article/mexican-military-arrest-lax/
- webinvest 5y agoIn the year President Andrés Manuel López won, 113 politicians and 43 candidates running for office were assassinated. That was about 2/3rds of all of the presidential candidates. This year, 34 Mexican presidential candidates have been murdered so far. Most people want to get rid of the cartels and every year, people try, but all of the Mexican presidential candidates that want to, get murdered by a Mexican cartel.