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Caribbean-Latin America
Cartels Part 1: Americans Caught in the Crossfire -Peter Zeihan
2023-03-08
[MAILCHIMP] On March 7th, two of the four US citizens kidnapped shortly after crossing the border into Mexico were found dead. This raises several questions, but perhaps the most significant is how this will change the United States' policy on Mexican cartels.

The cartels have a long and deep-rooted history of flushing the American system with drugs, laundering money, and other illicit activities. However deserving of the designation as a terrorist group, we have seen in recent history how our actions on terrorist groups have played out...just look at Pakistan.

Any action taken against the cartels would ultimately damage American and Mexican relations. As the US moves away from its ties with the Chinese, that's the last thing anyone wants. It's a tricky situation, and the solution isn't black and white...but maybe everyone should lay off the white stuff for a while.
Posted by:DarthVader

#3  Rebellious Thugs of Bareilly
Once waylaid our famblies, and daily,
But since the Nabob went
And built a cantonment,
They're snug as a bug in a bailey.
Posted by: Sheba Snenter6132   2023-03-08 21:46  

#2  "Plata o plomo is a Colombian Spanish slang phrase that translates to “silver or lead.” A person saying the phrase is telling the listener to either accept a bribe (plata, meaning “silver,” a common slang term for money in Colombia) or lose their life (plomo, a metonym for “lead bullet”). plata o plomo largely entered public consciousness in the 1970s through the activities of the Medellín Cartel. The cartel, lead by Pablo Escobar, flooded American markets with cocaine throughout the 1970s–80s. It was Escobar who famously used the phrase plata o plomo to threaten government officials with harm if they didn’t accept his bribes."
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-03-08 12:38  

#1  Our military is compromised. Try to use them against the cartel and their NPCs will start taking out family members, most of whom live off installations. Which would be a wake up call to the Swamp what would happen if they decided to do the same thing to the remaining Americans within the borders.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-08 11:33  

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