Mexico Folds to Trump
Mexico shows cooperation
Unlike the president of Ukraine, the president of Mexico is at least trying to cooperate with Donald Trump. On Thursday, February 27, they shipped Rafael Caro Quintero to United States to face justice. Along with 28 of his compadres.
Insiders note it’s a “show of compliance” by Mexican authorities.
In just a few days, all the goods moving northward from Mexico will have a 25 percent tariff added. That’s Trump’s way of getting them to start confronting their own government corruption.
For far too long, Mexican authorities have allowed the drug cartels to do as they please. The entire nation has a bribery and corruption problem so half their law enforcement is on the cartel payroll.
Not only that, the drug cartels are armed and equipped a whole lot better than the Mexican military. President Trump calls the gangsters “quasi-government organizations.”
They’ve split Mexico between them and are a significant contributor to “the flow of highly addictive fentanyl.”
Framework of respect
Mexico is terrified that President Trump will order U.S. military forces across the border. The Mexican attorney general is hoping that a few tokens of cooperation will avoid an occupying invasion.
“This action,” they note in a statement, “is part of the efforts of coordination, cooperation and bilateral reciprocity, within the framework of respect for the sovereignty of both nations.” We’ll ship the drug lords to you so you don’t have to come down here and get them, the Mexican’s suggest.
All 29 of the cartel prisoners “boarded planes at an airport north of Mexico City and were taken to eight U.S. cities.” Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed their arrival but isn’t saying much about where they’re being held.
We do know that the DOJ is bringing two of them to trial in a federal court in Brooklyn on Friday. It’s not clear if we had to do a full extradition process on them because “the Mexican government called the operation a transfer.”
Even though they were already taken out of business, Mexico sent up “some of the most powerful cartel leaders involved in the trade of cocaine and heroin decades ago.” Also in the shipment were new “narcos” accused of “moving fentanyl into the U.S.”
Caro Quintero, the co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel was one of the big names. Other noteworthy names are the Trevino brothers, Antonio Cervantes and El Guerito. Both Mexico and Canada “have said they are doing all they can to curtail the illegal drugs trade.“
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