Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans for constitutional reforms to protect Mexico’s sovereignty after the U.S. designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The designation has raised concerns in Mexico about potential U.S. military intervention.
Sheinbaum vowed to prevent foreign interference in legal matters and proposed enshrining restrictions on foreign agents.
Additionally, she seeks harsher penalties for foreign gun traffickers. With a congressional majority, her Morena party is positioned to pass the reforms despite tensions with the U.S.
The cartels wouldn’t be nearly as powerful if American gun companies weren’t producing so many guns, knowing full well where they’re ending up and how they’re being used.
In any case, talking about Mexico’s cartels is just Republicans trying to distract the public from their own white supremacist, bigoted, transphobic, and xenophobic policies that make them far more dangerous terrorists than all the Mexican cartels combined.
That’s not exactly true. While there is gun trafficking over the US southern border, the cartels have access to much larger orders of military hardware because they purchase firearms that “fell off the truck” from corrupt paramilitary orgs and security forces in central and South America.
You don’t need to piecemeal acquire semi-auto Glocks when you can get crates of full-auto AKs and ammo all in one go.
You should be more worried about your American military industrial complex and police state than Mexican cartels. Why is it never okay for other countries to have weaponry but America can do whatever the fuck?