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  • After Six Decades of the War on Drugs, What Works? {NYT opinion article}

    02/24/2026 5:35:28 AM PST · by Cronos · 16 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Feb. 24, 2026 | Maria Abi-Habib
    Drug lords have been killed or captured, and cartels have splintered or collapsed, only to see more violent ones replace them and the illicit trade expand. So, 60years of war on drugs, what has actually worked? ...The Sinaloa Cartel, after all, did not go away after its chief, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, was captured and extradited to the United States. ...Rather than simply going after kingpins like Mr. Oseguera, the authorities need to take a holistic approach to dismantle these groups more completely, analysts say. The Mexican government has to use a combination...
  • BRAIN ROT: NYT Claims Trump Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’

    01/22/2025 12:44:11 PM PST · by JV3MRC · 28 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 1/22/2025 | Joseph Vazquez
    No, the headline does not deceive you. The New York Times got its pants in a bunch over President Donald Trump daring to refer to violent Mexican drug cartels as “terrorists” because it could supposedly harm the economy. “How Labeling Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could Hurt the U.S. Economy,” read the asinine January 22 news item from Times correspondents Maria Abi-Habib and Simon Romero. The authors railed against Trump’s executive order designating the cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and claimed that it “could force some American companies to forgo doing business in Mexico rather than risk U.S. sanctions.” Yeah, how dare Trump...