How safe is AMLO in regards to the loyalty of the security forces, control over Westoid NGOs, etc?
How much of the current drug problem in the US is actually from Mexico vs how much of it has been created by intentional ops to manufacture consent ?
The drug trade extending from Mexico into the US is a genuinely massive problem. As always, the propaganda used by the far-right never trades just in falsities, but takes a real problem which has to an important degree grown organically under the influence of both domestic and international market and political forces, and presents it in such a way so as to give the impression that Mexicans are 'invading' the US with their drugs etc., whereas it would not be possible without the history of, in particular, US involvement in supporting central and south American drug cartels and drug-trafficking far-right paramilitaries (blending into the same thing: like, where do people think the cartels learned how to operate so militarily like a parallel state?). The cartels who control the drug trade in Mexico are almost a state within a state, and look downright military compared to many other organized crime groups. But, imo, there are definitely interests within both countres' broader state structures for the trade to continue. There's too much money involved. The U$American $ has purchasing power. The intentions behind the presentation of the drug trade and war in the West, above all in the USA, even when intentional ops, don't exhaust the different interests different parts of the two states' wrt the drug trade.
Let's gooo. I hope this pushes other countries to do the same
Everyone should read Drug Cartels Do Not Exist
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D3530303CB42D70ABEB080A342141BEE
I realize the summary on libgen is ass. Basically a new history of the Mexican War on Drugs. It is problematizing the idea of drug cartels as just criminal organizations, divorced from the reality of Mexican and US state violence and the consequences of the Drug War on the Mexican populace generally. It flips the script on the drug war, showing how violence usually emanated from an armed police and military, when they couldn’t find coherent cartels to destroy. Finally, it talks about how the presidents of Mexico have had similar or different positions and effects on the War, with a brief afterword on AMLO for anyone curious.
A solid Marxist explanation that was translated recently
nice i might do that recently started with this buying books thing ...
