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Trump Admin Laying Groundwork For Unilateral U.S. Military Action Against Cartels In Mexico (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cartels have diversified their income sources to the point that if their drug income fell to 0 overnight they would still survive. Human trafficking, farming, natural resource extraction, and extortion make up very large parts of modern cartels income.

We should still legalize/decriminalize drugs to hurt the cartels, but it won't ruin them like it would have say 20 years ago.