Cartels’ Grip on Mexican Elections: Government Will Not Stop Drugs to US
The Ecuadorian Armed Forces conduct military reconnaissance and surveillance operations as part of the country’s strategy against violence and transnational and local organized crime, on April 18, 2023, in Guayaquil. (Photo: Ecuadorian Armed Forces)
In response to the US drug crisis which is claiming 200 American lives daily, the Biden Administration vows to cooperate with the Mexican government. A statement from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) regarding tackling Mexico’s cartels asserts, ‘In close coordination with the Government of Mexico and by leveraging President Biden’s Executive Order, we will continue to take aggressive action and exercise global leadership to strike drug trafficking organizations.’”
Taking down the cartels is crucial, given their involvement not only in narcotrafficking and money laundering but also in the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border,
