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Mexico president asks cartels not to fight each other after arrest of drug lords (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Dear Drug lords. Kindly do not infight and refrain from selling drugs. Pls.

kthxbye.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Knock it off, cartels! Don't make me come over there! (With my military that apparently has no chance of winning. Where do I send payment?)

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Hey, why not? Is their an effective solution that he's ignoring in favor of this?

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024

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