Mexico Should Reject Appeasement and Choose Peace
In an apparent attempt to appease President Trump in the hope of averting the imposition of U.S. tariffs on Mexico, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum did four things:
1. Sent 29 Mexican citizens to the United States so that they could be prosecuted for violating America’s drug laws;
2. Sent thousands of Mexican troops to the Mexico-U.S. border, ostensibly to help prevent fentanyl and other drugs and illegal immigrants from entering the United States;
3. Busted several illegal fentanyl operations inside Mexico; and
4. Assured Trump that Mexico was doing — and would continue doing — everything possible to stem the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States.
Trying to appease Trump, however, is the wrong way for Mexico to go. Instead, the best thing Sheinbaum could ever do is declare directly and forthrightly that Mexico will no longer have anything to do with America’s ridiculous, deadly, destructive, and corrupt wars on drugs and immigrants.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Specifically, Sheinbaum and Mexico should take the following three actions:
1. Immediately legalize all drugs, including fentanyl. The war on drugs is the root cause of the massive violence that has encased Mexico for the past several decades. Drug prohibition gives rise to enormous black-market prices and profits, which attract unsavory people who resort to violence to maintain market share. Cracking down on Mexican drug cartels simply aggravates the problem by causing black-market prices and profits to increase even more, which inevitably attracts more unsavory, violent people into the drug trade. There is one — and only one — way to get rid of drug cartels — full and complete
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