Re:Mexico truckers protest new Texas inspections, halt trade...
by jollybean on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:25PM
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? Cartels have effective control over certain areas of Mexico and corrupted all layers of governance.
> 40 000 dead from direct conflict between cartels and government forces since 2006.
Just because it's technically unlikely that you're going to encounter the violence yourself, and therefore not give you a 'violence vibe' doesn't really have anything to do with how much violence there is.
40K is a gigantic number and will possibly be bigger than the Russian-Ukranian war when it's over.
If power of some armed groups rivals that of government, then it's a 'near failed state'.
We have the technology and wherewithal and hopefully 'learned lessons' to make progress on this.
The fact that this massive, organized violence exists, is to a great extent our responsibility for letting it metastasize.
> 40 000 dead from direct conflict between cartels and government forces since 2006.
Just because it's technically unlikely that you're going to encounter the violence yourself, and therefore not give you a 'violence vibe' doesn't really have anything to do with how much violence there is.
40K is a gigantic number and will possibly be bigger than the Russian-Ukranian war when it's over.
If power of some armed groups rivals that of government, then it's a 'near failed state'.
We have the technology and wherewithal and hopefully 'learned lessons' to make progress on this.
The fact that this massive, organized violence exists, is to a great extent our responsibility for letting it metastasize.