Trump to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists

[Judi Lynn]

2 hours ago

The US will legally designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups, President Donald Trump has said.

Mr Trump told conservative media figure Bill O'Reilly that he had already been working on the designation for 90 days.

It prompted Mexico's foreign ministry to request an urgent meeting with US State Department officials.

This month, Mr Trump said he would "wage WAR on the drug cartels" after an attack on US citizens in Mexico that killed three women and six children.

More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50568812

[Jake Stern]

1. Have no objection to this

These cartels are brutal and bloodthirsty and need to be shut down.

Sadly the Mexican government is too weak willed, too inept and corrupted to properly deal with a these monsters.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Presumably you're cool with sending US drones across the border to spray various deadly ordnance

on our neighbors to the South ... based on Trump's decision that the Target(s) are 'part of the Cartel'?

Or ... what if the US just invades, a la Iraq/Afghanistan?

Cause that's pretty much what the US does to people they brand as terrorists and the countries that 'harbor' them ...

Just askin' ...

[Judi Lynn]

3. Yes, too true. He's using the "terrorist" designation as his pass across a nation's borders,

absolutely overstepping Mexico's sovereignty, not within the rights of ANY other nation, no matter how loathsome and dirty its president.

He's trying to grant absolute power to himself.

It can be assumed that thought NEVER crossed the minds of any U.S. President since 1900, I'm sure.

Glad to see your comments.

[Eugene]

4. Trump plans to designate Mexican cartels as terror groups, stirring outcry

Source: Washington Post

Trump plans to designate Mexican cartels as terror groups, stirring outcry

By Mary Beth Sheridan
11/26/2019, 10:20:00 p.m.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government expressed alarm Tuesday after President Trump said he was planning to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, a move that officials here fear could complicate security cooperation and trade between the neighbors.

“Mexico will never accept any action that violates our national sovereignty,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard tweeted. “We will act firmly. I have sent our position to the U.S. as well as our resolution on combating transnational organized crime.”

The Foreign Ministry said Ebrard would contact Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to set up an urgent meeting to discuss “this theme of high relevance for the bilateral agenda.”

Trump told former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in a radio interview broadcast Tuesday that Mexican cartels “will be designated” as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The president noted that he had already suggested sending the U.S. military to help Mexico tackle organized crime, but was turned down by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“I’ve actually offered him to let us go in and clean it out and he so far has rejected the offer. But at some point, (something) has to be done,” Trump said, citing the damage done by drugs to American addicts and their families.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-plans-to-designate-mexican-cartels-as-terror-groups-stirring-outcry/2019/11/26/8ebaeefa-10b7-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html