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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by licebmi__at__ on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:16PM (#23878367)
Trump had enough time and leverage to put pressure on him, so if that's your hope, well I don't think anything will come from it.

OTOH, I may not really think highly about how AMLO has done things, but I do applaud him for following a strategy to act against the structural causes. We have enough history on how the Militar strategy doesn't work, and actually a couple of examples where the "tough on drugs" guy is actually colluding with the drug dealers.

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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by dpoochieni on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:42PM (#23931439)
What are the structural causes? Unless you mean the economics of it, I don't think people will be dissuaded from going for cartel jobs. Lots of educated people end up working for them. It is just that the profits are that big. Would Chapo having a better primary school have made any difference?
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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by licebmi__at__ on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:16AM (#23965281)
Yes, I do mean economics. And as I mentioned, I don't think highly about how he's doing, as the economic indicators are not so great, but the proposed strategy was since the debates, to put pressure on the economic side of cartel, and offer relief on poverty.
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