What would Harry Truman do?
Better yet. What would Regan do. Think Panama and Grenada. Probably drop a few hundred Marines in their midst.
I honestly don’t know what Truman would do.
This is largely a problem of the Mexican authorities. Compounding that problem is the fact that the various cartels are currently making an thirty to fifty billion dollars a year, and that’s with them warring between themselves for control of trafficking routes into the US.
Obviously, whichever cartel is the last man standing stands to gain an extremely lucrative business operation. Thirty to fifty billion per annum is nothing to sneeze at.
That money is also corrupting the authorities in Mexico, an additional headache for anyone trying to deal with it. Look at the Los Zetas - they’re Mexican Army deserters who clearly got tired of their low pay and decided to go where the REAL money is......drugs.
Let’s say that the Mexican authorities finally succeed in eliminating all the cartels; that’s up to fifty billion a year no longer circulating in their economy. So they themselves have a reason to crack down - the horrific violence - but not crack down TOO hard - lost revenue for their economy.
Money, like power, tends to corrupt. And easy money corrupts absolutely.