I often wonder if we could find a way to help Mexico. The two country's unified together would be in a better position to compete against global competition. I don't have any first hand knowledge of Mexico, but the media pictures it as a country run by drug lords. If we worked with them and sent our military to destroy the drug lords compounds, would this be a possibility ?
"Drug Lords" are a recent phenomenon, Mexico being older than the USA. One can only hope an impermanent problem as well. Key to a solution is that the the market for drugs dries up. I don't see that happening, though, as it would expect a major change in US "consuming classes".
Our Military & Law Enforcement agencies? Many instances of cooperation.
As many more where cash has subborned either side or both.
Beyond PM's scope. Seriously, it is.
Ex; Back of that drug trade, find a very different picture, but not necessarily one all that much more attractive.
Oligarchs (in the beginning "Hidalgos" Hijo de Algo "son of some other". implying son of someone with power, influence, or both) long ran the economy of Mexico.
Revolutions ensued. Many. Sometimes in parallel or contra each other, each shaping the landscape with blood, bullets, corruption, and no other word for it - every imaginable form of looting and a few that
defy imagination.
Far too complex a country for easy discussion.
Far too little ANY outside agency, US least of all, can do to change it. They are doing that themselves. Always have done.
Just not at the rate, in the manner, nor toward goals that please themselves, let alone anyone else.
A better-controlled border, be it a wall or a fleet of drones (cheaper, actually) is not an end-solution. It is only one of the prerequisites for starting the process to find the first parts of what might
become a solution.
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