Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss

[joshcsimmons]

Puerto Vallarta is on fire - seeing tons of videos on my timeline.

[TacticalCoder]

Apparently as "retaliation" from the cartel because their boss was killed. Where do you draw the line?

At what point do you decide to go full El Salvador / Bukele on violent cartel members who are willing to put cities on fire when they cannot human and drug traffic at will?

When is enough enough?

[m4rtink]

How does this usually work - they just set some cars on fire to prove a point and demonstrate they are "doing something" and then just switch to the next boss that comes out of the secession fight ? Or is it more complicated or nuanced ?

[tibbydudeza]

As long as Mexico shares a border with the US the biggest consumer of such recreational drugs and poverty in Mexico there will always be drug cartels.

It is basically whack-a-mole killing or imprisoning cartel heads - there will be splinter factions and you will just get three just as nasty ones in it's place.

[quickthrowman]

Agreed, it’s a demand-side problem. The profit potential is so great that someone will smuggle drugs into the US, no matter the risk.

[foogazi]

Most-Wanted Cartel Boss so far

[NewJazz]

Honestly probably not even that. Past most-wanteds were probably more querido.

[downboots]

Horror vacui

[F7F7F7]

I imagine that if the U.S. assisted in any meaningful way ala the search for Escobar in Columbia we probably would have heard it by now.

[nsvd2]

From TFA:

The Mexican government said the United States had contributed intelligence that aided the operation against Mr. Oseguera.

[testfrequency]

The US confirmed they’re involved. They provided intel, and there’s speculation the Mexican Army was also using american weapons.

[Gualdrapo]

Colombia*

[JasonADrury]

And thousands more will die due to the fully predictable and justified retaliation that follows. This doesn't meaningfully weaken the cartels, but forces them to respond in order to not compromise future safety.

Prioritizing showy executions over actual progress, words that should describe the cartels, not the government.

[echoangle]

> justified retaliation

I don’t see how it would be justified. Do you think the cartels are in the right here?