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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday asked the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel to act "responsibly” so no one else gets killed, after a week of escalating violence nearly paralyzed the Sinaloa state capital, Culiacan.

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The exchange Friday during the president's morning press briefing is the latest in a series of instances where López Obrador has downplayed the clashes between factions of the Sinaloa cartel.

The president, who leaves office on Sept. 30, has repeatedly refused to confront cartels, laying out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” strategy offering opportunities to youths so they won’t join cartels.

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Short of the UN rooting out the cartels and enforcing safe elections what’s the answer here?

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The common answer used to be drug legalization because theoretically that would undercut their financial base, but from what I understand they've Diversified to the point where I don't think that would work anymore.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

At least then you have the absolute moral high ground.
" we need to eradicate drug trade" is not a good call to arms, since consuming psychoactive substances is the most human thing ever, practiced by a wide range of the population
"we need to get rid of murderers and human traffickers" is clear and unambiguous, and would actually make more people turn their back on the cartels

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I think that if drugs become legal, and the cartels also do business in other legal areas, they can solve their conflicts in court rather than through arms.

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Hope that other large, multinationals don't realize they can wage all out war and we're powerless to stop them.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Well they do already. Look at the fossil fuel industry.

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