Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes unusual public appeal after arrest of top leaders of Sinaloa cartel

Mexico’s president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following last week’s detention of the top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily press briefing that he trusted that drug traffickers knew they would only suffer if they stepped up the internal wars that already plague the Sinaloa cartel.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ways to solve this problem:

    • stop supplying them with guns by capping the number of guns a single person can purchase each year
    • stop supplying them with funds by reducing drug use by multiple routes (clinics, treatment, free prescription medications)

    Ways to not solve this problem

    • ask nicely
    • war