Josh Treviño ,
February 3, 2025
Op-Ed
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America First Policy Institute
Yes, there is a Mexican state-cartel alliance
Originally published on The Spectator World
“The Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico,” announced the White House last month, buried in the official statement on US tariffs on that country’s goods. The declaration has sent shockwaves through Mexico.
If true — if the government of our southern neighbor acts in concert
with, defends, condones and/or profits from the trafficking cartels that
have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and worked to destroy
American sovereignty in recent years — then it is a seismic
pronouncement that heralds a new era of confrontation between the two
nations.