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So long as the financial resources of the cartels is in the same neighborhood as Mexican law enforcement, nothing will solve this problem. I can’t believe that
by user3939382 4y ago
So long as the financial resources of the cartels is in the same neighborhood as Mexican law enforcement, nothing will solve this problem.
I can’t believe that the US with its resources can have a border neighbor in this bad of shape without somehow being to blame at a national policy level.
- Waterluvian 4y agoCorruption at the levels seen in Mexico is a very, very hard thing to expel from a culture where it’s well-entrenched. Like trying to being democracy to other countries, no amount of resources and effort will work if the population fundamentally isn’t ready for it.
- thewarpaint 4y agoHowever, it was pretty easy for the US to topple democracies abroad regardless of the population’s opinions about it.
- Waterluvian 4y agoIndeed it’s easier to destroy than to build.
- notfunnyrando 4y agoI think you misjudge the intentions of the US government. do you really think this is about stopping drugs? as far as I can tell what they really want is to sell guns (to cartels) and buy the best of the goods (good drugs for good parties?)
- user3939382 4y agoI presume every major national policy is fueled by corruption, pay to play, and enriching our politicians, their donors, or both.
- ShredKazoo 4y agoI think the resource disparity is exactly the problem. The US/Mexico income disparity ends up distorting the Mexican economy. Mexico's comparative advantage, in an international trade sense, is its long, difficult-to-monitor border with the US, through which drugs & humans can be trafficked.
- ShredKazoo 4y agoI suppose there is an argument that the US should try to expand legal, upstanding immigration from Mexico to try to push Mexico more in the direction of being a remittance economy.