Trump -Bedrohungen und Mexikos Vorgehen trafen mexikanische Kartell (Geschenkartikel)

SS: „One cartel leader says he’s trying to figure out how to protect his family in case the American military strikes inside Mexico. Another says he’s already gone into hiding, rarely leaving his home. Two young men who produce fentanyl for the cartel say they have shut down all their drug labs.

A barrage of arrests, drug seizures and lab busts by the Mexican authorities in recent months has struck the behemoth Sinaloa Cartel, according to Mexican officials and interviews with six cartel operatives, forcing at least some of its leaders to scale back on fentanyl production in Sinaloa state, their stronghold.

The cartels have sown terror across Mexico and caused untold damage in the United States. But here in Culiacán, the state capital, the dynamic seems to be shifting, at least for now. Cartel operatives say they’ve had to move labs to other areas of the country or temporarily shut down production.

“You can’t be calm, you can’t even sleep, because you don’t know when they’ll catch you,” said one high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel who, like other cartel operatives, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of capture.

“The most important thing now is to survive,” he added, his hands trembling.

The government crackdown on organized crime intensified after the Trump administration threatened retribution unless Mexico halted the supply of fentanyl into the United States, vowing high tariffs if the flow of migrants and drugs continued.

President Trump began floating the possibility of tariffs soon after his election in November, and soon after taking office announced 25 percent levies on Mexican goods if the country didn’t act on border security and drug trafficking. The president gave Mexico a month to deliver results, threatening to enact the tariffs on March 4 if he wasn’t satisfied.

Facing economic chaos, the Mexican government went on the offensive. President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched 10,000 national guard troops to the border and hundreds more soldiers to Sinaloa state, a major hub of fentanyl trafficking where a cartel war has caused turmoil for months.“

I’d love to hear some thoughts on how this is anything other than a trans-federal agency game of whackamole or some other game for cheap theatrics.

The fact remains that most of the illegal arms used by the cartel are [supplied and smuggled into the country by the US](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-09-709). Additionally, while all levels of MX government are right disparaged for having deeply embedded cartel influence, cartel/cartel-adjacent influence has been discovered within [US law enforcement](https://myrgv.com/), [Federal agencies](https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2012/s1209.pdf), and all manner of government with increasingly alarming frequency.

The conclusion this brings me to is that the cartels would not be as powerful or as dangerous if it wasn’t for America enabling them. Shouldn’t the manhunt start here first?