A bombshell New York Times story yesterday revealed a secret executive order signed by US President Donald Trump authorizing extraterritorial attacks on "cartels."

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5804418

Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) made it clear yesterday that the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will not allow the participation of U.S. armed forces in operations within Mexican territory, emphasizing that bilateral collaboration on security matters will always be carried out with unrestricted respect for national sovereignty.

The Foreign Ministry’s position was issued in response to statements made hours earlier by the United States ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald Johnson, who affirmed that both countries are united as sovereign allies in confronting criminal cartels.

In its seven-point statement, the Foreign Ministry maintained that collaboration with the United States is based on principles such as mutual trust, shared responsibility, sovereign equality, respect for territorial integrity, and cooperation without subordination.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 days ago

    helping people get rid of those cartels is something I would appreciate a lot

    You’d have to be very gullible to believe they’re going to do that. EXTREMELY so to believe That it’s ALL they’re going to do.

    And I highly doubt their government is able to deal with that problem on their own

    Probably much better at it than US soldiers with no background in law and little to no local connections.

    they are too powerful and murder any opposition

    The time when fighting organized violence with more organized violence was an effective strategy ended DECADES ago. If it ever started.

    The same way North Korea is stuck in the middle of the 20th century

    Ethics comparisons aside, saying that the cartels (whose leaders tend to be scrupulously anonymous or known chiefly by an alias/nickname) act in the same way as the hereditary cult of personality monarchy of North Korea is so untethered from the situation on the ground that it’s currently orbiting one of the moons of Saturn.