Mexican drug cartel

On New Year’s Eve a few years ago, I was in Medellín, Colombia, the city that gave its name to one of the world’s most notorious drugs cartels. Our taxi driver offered us some cocaine to fuel the party we were heading to: $10 for a gram; $15 for the “luxury” product. Our group decided to splash out and get a gram of the really good stuff. I’d tried coke a couple of times in London. It was like snorting drain cleaner. Whoosh… I found that half a line of Medellín’s best was enough to keep you going until sunrise. But the next day it was difficult to be within

Mexico is one area where the MAGA base and its brain trust seem open to the idea of more aggressive action

The war footing this administration is adopting now toward the cartels is still in its early days, but the die is cast

The Trump administration must feed the military-industrial beast somehow

The cartels have switched from the Mexican border to the Canadian border

The administration is already indicating its willingness to take real action against a threat that deserved direct confrontation long ago

In all likelihood, the US’s relationship with the failing narco-state across our southern border will only get worse

The deadlock is part of even bigger problems