Mexico's lower house of Congress on Monday passed an amendment to mining legislation in order to nationalize the country's lithium reserves, a day after the bill was sent to lawmakers by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
I mean, it is a fact that the drug cartels have been actively armed by the DEA and the US has flooded Mexico with weapons on various occasions. They hold control over a significant amount of mexican territory and have a lot of political and economic influence (they are a sort of pseudo fascist dual power). Most mexicans hate them but also fear them, so it would be the perfect point of entry for the US to meddle in mexican affairs. The cartels are already romabticized in pop culture both in the US and Mexico with tv series, songs and the like.
I remember how about ten years ago, Mexican police started finding American automatic weapons – complete with serial numbers – on dead cartel members. The response of the Obama administration was “whoops, that was actually part of a super-secret plan to find out where the drug lords get their weapons.” Yeah, right.
I mean, it is a fact that the drug cartels have been actively armed by the DEA and the US has flooded Mexico with weapons on various occasions. They hold control over a significant amount of mexican territory and have a lot of political and economic influence (they are a sort of pseudo fascist dual power). Most mexicans hate them but also fear them, so it would be the perfect point of entry for the US to meddle in mexican affairs. The cartels are already romabticized in pop culture both in the US and Mexico with tv series, songs and the like.
I remember how about ten years ago, Mexican police started finding American automatic weapons – complete with serial numbers – on dead cartel members. The response of the Obama administration was “whoops, that was actually part of a super-secret plan to find out where the drug lords get their weapons.” Yeah, right.