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Monday, July 6, 2020

AMLO's "Hugs" won't end Mexican Mayhem

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY GUS from WSJ

The drug war created the crime problem. The president is making it worse


The elegant Las Lomas neighborhood of Mexico Metropolis, with its sun-dappled sidewalks and upscale houses is likely one of the federal district’s extra serene settings. So it shocked the nation when an armed group unleashed a commando-style assault there on June 26.

Equally surprising was the target of the assault, Mexico Metropolis’s police chief, Omar García Harfuch. Two of his bodyguards had been killed, together with a passerby, within the barrage of gunfire. Mr. García Harfuch was severely wounded.

Statistically, the incident isn’t even a blip. In 2019 there has been a report 35,588 homicides nationwide. Within the first 4 months of this yr, was up 2.4%.

The killing is a continuation of greater than a decade of drug-cartel violence. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took workplace in December 2018 promising to pacify the nation however isn’t having a lot of luck.

The centerpiece of AMLO’s blueprint to defeat the cartels is “hugs not bullets.” Because the slogan suggests, the president lays the blame for violence on social issues. Constant together with his ideology, he prescribes wealth redistribution because of the remedy. This method is proving an ineffective safety technique.
Mexico’s crime drawback emanates from the prohibition of the leisure use of narcotics and excessive consumption amongst individuals. This creates worth within the product and, as a result of demand is strong, it generates fabulous revenue for transnational legal teams. 

Flush with weapons, expertise, and organizational networks, Mexican crime networks have profitably added extortion and kidnapping to their portfolios.

Companies giant and small make common funds to those syndicates. 

In some locations the following is routine, the cartels are the de facto authorities amassing “taxes.” 

Some tolls on personal highways are imposed by cartels. There are locations within the nation that have gangs' drive around in open vehicles brandishing firearms to declare their control of the territory.

CJNG had good reason to want the 38-year-old police chief gone. He has prevented established presence to the Jalisco mob and its allied forces in Mexico City Metropolis. 

In his earlier submit as head of the Felony Investigation Company in Mexico’s Legal professional Normal’s workplace, his work led to the seize of a number of cartel honchos.

The Jalisco cartel chief’s son, who in February was extradited to the U.S. In early June the cartel exacted revenge for that extradition by gunning down federal judge Uriel Villegas alongside together with his spouse in view of their two younger daughters.

However the braveness of judges and law-enforcement officers, it’s late within the challenge  for Mexico to avoid wasting itself from this reign of terror.

To do this AMLO’s advisers have to persuade him that the way forward for Mexican democracy will depend on abandoning his one-man rule and constructing sturdy, accountable establishments on the federal, state, and municipal stage.

Efforts to enhance safety had been undermined by former President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took resources away from the federal police and politicized regulation enforcement.

Enter AMLO's National Guard, while diminishing the Mexican Navy

AMLO has precipitated additional injury by disbanding the federal police and changing it with a national guard.

His new guard is not prepared for prime time and maybe in violation of the structure, he has put the military in control of it. Fearing human-rights violations, AMLO additionally has been reluctant to make use of the guard to conduct themselves decisively to get better control of territory dominated by criminals.

There might be no peace if Mexico doesn’t restore the presence in the state on cartel-controlled turf. 

And even when the army offers the boots on the ground  it delays the intense work of skilled state and native police, prosecutors, judges, prisons, and intelligence, it’s counterproductive.

Mexican intelligence is healthier than it was 20 years in the past, however, it is inadequate to acquire peace. 

The Mexican navy has the nation’s strongest intelligence capabilities, however, AMLO has decreased its function.

AMLO could also be studying and learning  from his errors, however, time will not be on his side.

Via: WSJ

49 comments:

  1. The answer is MORE BULLETS. MORE BULLETS. MORE BULLETS. MORE BULLETS. DRONES. MISSILES. DEATH TO TERRORISTS. MORE BULLETS

    NO HUGS
    --El Guero

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    1. He is letting cartels such as CJNG grow stronger,they are advancing with no gob intrusion.They should be aggressively hunting the leadership.We saw what happened to Zetas when Lazca dropped out,it definitely weakend them.Doing nothing,we can all see the results

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    2. THis man is a joke. There is so much corruption in Mexico that it will never stop. Mexicanos are strong not a bunch of sissys. That is what they have made of the men.

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  2. Los abrazos son para familia e amigos. Ya basta de tonterias...hay que describirlo como es, Presidente PENDEJO. Las poemas de el ni sirven como obituario para los miles más defuntos que hemos sufrido desde que llegó. Al verlo este pinche amlo [minisculo con proposito porque su nombre ni merece letra mayuscula], me da ganas de agarrarlo por el cuello hasta que la unica cosa que sale de su voca sea paz, sino silencio.

    Gracias por permirteme compartir con Ustedes.

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    1. AMLOs policy is for dreamers and idealism,it is patently obvious that things have gotten much worse,if he is no pragmatist things will continue as is.He has to change his policy and root cartels out,make them the hunted,cartels are taking advantage of his ridiculous outlook and policy of hug not bullets?Unbelievably simplistic?

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  3. NO MEXICAN selected (ELECTED OR NOT) will NEVER help the Mexican PEOPLE
    Only good president was LAZARO CARDENAS who gave LAND to the PEOPLE and made Mexico a better place..
    ALL the others are SELL OUTS
    Another president who was GOING to make Mexico a BETTER place was colosio but he DIDN'T make it because he was KILLED..
    This AMLO character is a JOKE and a crook just like the REST
    Why DOESN'T he go AFTER CARTELS?
    Why does he love visiting CHAPO mom's?

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    1. No digas mamadas

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    2. @8:13There is a major federal highway project in the area when Chapos mother went to visit AMLO. She had to go through the same security measures as anybody else. What proof or suspicion do you have that he is a crook...? Habaer que dices.I concur with 7:17. No digas mamadas.

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    3. Lol THESE dummies still BELIEVE in fairy tales 😆 7:17 and 10:42
      How about THAT part when HE hollered at CHAPO mom "I got the letter you sent me MS. Consuelo"
      Bola de TONTOS!!!! 😆

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    4. Lol I know someone from the Gente Nueva who was there. Security measures? Yeah right...

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    5. 3:06 aren't you the guy that lives a block away from every crime that happens? Now you claim to be buddies with every cartel in Mexico.

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    6. How ABOUT when CHAPITOS called him so they COULD realese his brother WHEN detained in CULIACAN.. The time when CDS went to the MILITARY BASE to intimidate and threaten MILITARY FAMILIES?
      Should have called the SPECIAL forces and TOOK those pendejos OUT but instead called the jail in CULIACAN so they can REALESE HIM.. I wonder how MUCH CDS tpay HIM to be on THEIR side..
      Oh yeah I APMOST forgot.. How bout when CHAPO was in TRIAL and AMLO got the WHOLE chapo family passports and VISAS to go see HIM 😆 REDICOULOS...
      You pendejos still BELIEVE in this IDIOT SMH....

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  4. AMLO Is the best President 🇲🇽 Ever Had

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  5. Via WSJ? It reads as though it started in English, was translated to Spanish and then translated to English. Good article...interesting to see what the WSJ focuses on. Definitely a worth while read. Thanks, Chivis.

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  6. Let’s not be so hasty here in blaming AMLO.
    Has Mexico tried blaming America and/or Americans yet?
    I’m just spitballin’ ideas here!

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    1. Another ignorant in the crowd, Obrador has been in office for more than a year, and has put no effort with his cabinet to lowered the high homicide rate of 2019, which was approximately 36,000 , but on the attempted killing of the Mexican police chief, he did let them investigate and the killers were were caught.

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    2. 8:32 criminal matters are the job of law enforcement, (Judiciary) much more than of the CEO Presidente de la República whose job is more about the Administration, but AMLO is leading anticorruption campaigns in his administration and prosecuting crimes of the past.
      You are asking the elm for pears...

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  7. That photo makes me physically ill. AimLow is without a doubt the worst prez for Mexico, ever.

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  8. Hugs ?????? Really????? Are you kidding me ??? You give hugs to demons who kill women and small children????wtf

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  9. Una adivinanza.....
    Al principio, se hizo priista...
    Despues se hizo perredista....
    Luego se hizo morenista...
    Y al ultimo se hizo pendejo
    :)

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  10. Can someone please translate this back to Spanish for me please.

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    1. It is from wall street journal, use the link, it never was in spanish Willoto...

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  11. Not to be a devils advocate but the Mexican people voted on a democratic elections for AmLO I f figure , let the Mexican population enjoy this man presidency. At the end if the day ,when calderon was on power everyone criticized him for fighting the cartels out on the street and send in the marina and the Mexican army... People will never be happy. Deal with it or move some where else.

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    1. Can't seem to please all criticism regardless of who holds office.

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    2. U know this what the Mexican people voted, Amlo popular guy except the hug thing.

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  12. Hugs for thugs who sell drugs. Whadya think, Buggs?

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  13. Gringo started this. They send money. they send armas they send bullets. Then they say stop the drugs. Tantos. Stop the money stop the arms. Stop the bullets. Tell the people who put gold and silver on long and short arms they get found they go to prison. Make reporte for TV to show brutal life inside a cereso. Show covid sickness behind muros altas. All this while playing mantas de narcos.

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  14. Its seems all Mexican President give into the Cartels, it maybe Bribes or just scared of the Criminals. I do not think hugs will work,, homicides are up, whats helping the Amlo is the Coronavirus, everyone is focus on it. Rich don't suffer like innocent Mexican, who get his jet and leave the country.

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  15. I surely believe that he would

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  16. AMLO just needs to legalize all drugs. Take all cartels out of business. No more money for the cartels, corrupt cops, corrupts judges, corrupt politicians. So yeah starving corruption and greed...will never happen.

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    1. I don't think this will work, there will always be an underground market regardless of legalization

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  17. BELIEVE it or NOT Mexico is not even run by MEXICANS, in reality it's RUN by AMERICAN and European investors.. Mexican presidents are PUT in place to SUITE and TAKE CARE of those investors. If AMLO was REALLY TRYING to change 🇲🇽 he would get murdered and that's a FACT.. TOO much MONEY involved..
    Look UP mexican presidents in cults I forgot the other name for the skulls and bones..
    Notice how EVERY MEXICAN president ends up retiring in Europe?

    Onother fun FACT, ALL American presidents are RELATED they have the same blood line from a king from England EXCEPT one and it's NOT Obama...

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  18. todos aqui le tiran a AMLO. y no se an puesto a pensar que en los lugares mas violentos son gobernados por el PAN o algun partido afiliado a el
    PAN. y estos no hacen nada por que estan asta el tronco en complicidad. AMLO es el mejor presidente que a tenido mexico en los ultimos tiempos modernos. la frase abrazos no balazos es para aquellos adolecentes que no tienen oportunidad y toman el camino malo. da apoyos para que no haya la necesidad de tomar el mal camino ya que los gobiernos anteriores no ayudaban en nada y no te dejaba otra salida. EN FIN NOSOTROS LOS MEXICANOS SABEMOS COMO VIVIMOS Y A QUIEN APOYAMOS. NO IMPORTA LAS ENCUESTAS FALSAS QUE MUESTRAN. LA MEJOR ECUESTA ES LA GENTE ALREDEDOR QUE TE DICE A QUIEN APOYA.

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    1. Así se habla compa, te mereces un cartón de caguamas, salud!!!

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    2. 7:28 A GÜEBOO GÜEYES!
      VIVA AMLO y la Cuarta que les metió a los cuatreros de la política mexicana de todos los otros partidos sin patria.

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    3. Ok.. 😆 con abrazos..
      Hugs will solve EVERYTHING but yet the cartels ARE getting bigger and more kids are getting KILLED and hooked on DRUGS..

      He HAS MEXICANS all DUMB..

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  19. What the hell ALMO, had decreased the Navy's intelligence function to fight the war on drugs. No wonder people are dying everyday, bribes keep coming in, but his people keep getting slaughtered

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  20. I know people love to blame AMLO but didn't Calderón go hard after the carteles? It's what pretty much started the rise in homicides... The president can't do shit! Any law or military that he sends out to "curb" the problem is corrupt and can also be bought off while committing their own crimes... México's problem goes way beyond what a president can do. Citizens need to arm themselves and fight the government...

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  21. Maybe I misunderstand and you are recounting someone else's position here, but Chivis do you really view García Harfuch as a clean official doing a good job for security? Considering his family ties for generations to some of the most infamous atrocities in Mx history and his own involvement with the perpetrators of the Iguala case. It would certainly be a new pattern for the cartels to be carrying out hits in Df against top officials without them playing an active role for a rival power, as has been the case generally when such people are targeted.

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  22. Back when La Federacion was in control things were fairly calm. Hate to say it but the Mexican Govt should have/continue backdoor channels with CDS to eliminate CJNG who are more out of control.

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  23. You really want those drugs made here buddy?

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  24. nothing changes innocent and poor will continue to die.

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  25. There is nothing anybody can do about it, the Creator has a plan for us all and whatever happens is destined to happen

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  26. WSJ is the only newspaper left nowadays that is worth calling itself a "newspaper" although they too have their slants, i'd rather pay for this than the NYT

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    1. 7:35 but the NY TIMES is so clean of shit,
      You can use it to wipe your ass,
      WSJ COMES ALL FULL ALREADY

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  27. Damn amlo looking like an angel in that pic

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