By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
On 28 October, the United States Secretary of War announced it conducted strikes against four boats allegedly trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific, killing a total of 14 alleged traffickers. The strikes left one survivor, who the Mexican navy unsuccessfully attempted to rescue at the request of the US Coast Guard.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her morning news conference "we do not agree with these interventions. We have a model, a protocol that has given many results". She stated that she asked the United States to coordinate with Mexican authorities to detain alleged traffickers instead of striking them. She stated that while the strike was near Mexico, it was in international waters.
The video of the four boat strikes was shared on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's Twitter.
The following day, Sheinbaum met with US Ambassador Ronald Johnson and top Mexican officials to discuss the event, later describing the meeting as cordial, while disagreeing with the strikes.
The Trump Administration has destroyed fifteen alleged drug trafficking boats since early September. The attacks started on the Caribbean sea, mostly near Venezuela. This strike occurred 400 miles southwest of Acapulco - the closest strike to Mexico so far. In the initial weeks of the strikes, most occurred in the Caribbean sea. Now, the regional scope has shifted - out of eight strikes since 21 Oct, seven have occurred in the Pacific Ocean. The US is most likely using Reaper MQ-9 drones to target the boats.
Latin American leaders have been mostly quiet about the attacks, with the exception of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and now Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who have voiced disagreement with the attacks.
Within the United States, some politicians have called the attacks unconstitutional, violating due process, and questioning the evidence used to determine whether a boat is carrying narcotics or not. Despite the objections, the strikes remain popular among American voters. In October, a poll found that 71% of polled voters approve of the strikes.
The combined popularity of the strikes, minimal pushback from Latin American leaders, and Trump's confidence following the Gaza - Israel deal, make it a certainty that the strikes will continue, increase in pace, and likely target Venezuelan land soon.
Sources: SEMAR México Twitter, El Economista, @SecWar Twitter, Harvard 71% Poll, Sheinbaum Morning Conference 10/29
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ReplyDeleteYep land route traffic ans container ships will pick back up.
DeleteWhat a shame that American taxpayers must pay to stop things that Mexico and other narco Latin American countries refuse to stop. Nuke Culiacán and if that doesn't work, nuke all of Sinaloa and tell Mexico the party has just started if they cant control their country and be more like Canada, stop the drugs and become first world and stop being third world. Create a country that your own people are not trying to escape. Mexico is not our problem
ReplyDeletelol nuke ?
Delete8:48
DeleteTrump removed funding for addiction treatment. It's a shame Latin America has to pay for America's insatiable drug addiction.
Trump nukes his pants every day, and Mexico will be fully independent within a decade which is why the US is nervous.
DeleteThat's what she said.
DeleteCountry with the highest reported consumption of illicit drugs is the United States. Fix your cohort.
DeleteCanada is dangerous right now and tons of drugs get smuggled through that border nowdays too. Go look into Canadian organized crime. Also, just for the record, it’s the American consumer market for illegal drugs that fuels most of this. The largest drug market in the world. So until that gets addressed this will never end.
Delete9:58 am
DeleteYou're low IQ with no critical thinking skills and zero comprehension of per capita LOL at highest use of illicit drugs.
8:48 poverty all over Latin-America, even poverty in the US is the result of american style capitalism, colonial exploitation and greedy business practices, they were also used to bankrupt China after the british navy artillery got them to allow drug trafficking (Opioid Wars).
DeleteDrug trafficking continues through US military bases, (and none of them use venezuelan boats).
Today's drug trafficking was imposed in Latin-America under pretenses of fighting communism, thank henry kissinger and his nazi escapees in south america, like klaus barbie who recruited carlos lehder and pablo escobar in cahoots with alias Gato Félix, a cu an refugee, all done for republican miscreants, there is also United Fruit and chiquita bananas crimes of course.
848 Destroy all the projects in the whole US which outnumbers the slums in Mexico drastically.
Delete1010 Canada is not dangerous more drugs are moved from the US to Canada then Canada to US. Every gun used in a gang murder here comes from the US. Most the drugs you see being manufactured in Canada are going to Australia and New Zealand. The Fentanyl being manufactured here is staying for the domestic market. High level organized crime has always been here this is where they wash money. Mexicans will always be on top.
DeleteYou sound like a psychopath.
DeleteBtw, the dumb blame game saying latin america is hurt because of junkies is absurd. Nobody is forcing you to traffic drugs and kill eaxh other just like nobody's forcing Americans to junk out.
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DeleteAre you slow? Take a look at all the published data.
Bomb Chiquita Bananas
Delete🍌 🍌🍌
The British empire has been the world's drug trafficker since before drug trafficking was invented, and brittish empire owns australia, canada and south africa, the US is in process of getting recovered, we have some southafricans straling from the US people, elon musk and peter thiel who owns jd Vance the new vicepresident who accused trump of being a little hitler wannabe, all these moms are working to steal the US from the americans, one government contract at a time.
DeleteWe will blow whoever in the fuck we want! We are the USA! Who the fuck do you got?
Delete@8.48. If Mexico isn't your problem then why are you recommending murdering hundreds of thousands of their children? You aren't even attempting to be taken seriously.
Delete"Create a country that your own people are not trying to escape"? That might have been possible before Calderon with US backing turned Mexico into a war zone, but the only way hundreds of thousands of fleeing women and children could escape the wars the US deliberately provoked in Central America was to flee North. You haven't got the faintest idea about US foreign policy over the last 20 years. And do you really think that your parents taxes (you never paid tax in your life, or you wouldn't have said what you said) are spent on Mexico? You're either very young and very dumb, or very old and very bitter.
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DeleteThat's what she said.
This is terrorism . Looks like Trump is learning from his buddy Netanyahu to kill first ask questions later. After all who needs a jury and due process . Very democratic/ diplomatic of the US .
ReplyDeleteUS going to war with Mexico will be the end of the US empire as we know it.
The decline has already started. donald trump worst American president of all time.
DeleteThe decline started about 1965.
DeleteIsrael's former Prime minister Ehud Barak blames Hamas ascent to power on bibi nethanyahoo and co.
DeleteRodrigo duterte also took to murdering the people he used to get to power.
Bukele and alvaro uribe veles, did the same thing, it is a pattern now, corrupt people murdering their former drug trafficking associates to clean shit off their dirty little fingers.
Dominating unarmed unarmed Mexico will be the end of USA! LOL LOL
DeleteMexico sucks the USA middle class tax paying cock with their constant desperate need for welfare/“aid”.
Who the fuck are you kidding!
No more paisa power!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's what she said.
DeleteLooks like business is booming 💥 💥 💥 pun intended
ReplyDeletewell done you are pushing up the price of drugs - golf clap
DeleteArriba el Commandante Donald J Trump ! El Patron Trump acabando con las lacras y alieniando cabrones
ReplyDeleteI see the TDS in the comments 😁
ReplyDeleteI see the PLS in the comments.😂
DeleteWell I see the OMD in the comments.
DeleteI see LNR in the comments.
DeleteWhy would Mexico need speedboat? They share land with us. They can transport through the ground. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy are you such a duchess dumb ass.
DeleteIf they can transport via the ground then why are there flaming kilos and Venezuelan asadas bobbing in the ocean?
DeleteNuffy always tries his best, and now he's
Deletesacrificing his Halloween 🎃 night of trick-or-treating to bring you his unique perspective on whatever pops into his head!
That's all we can ask of anybody in life, doncha find? 🎃
What ashame US has all the drug attics in World Countries got to see. A Nazi Dictator Trump trying to kill people in open waters.That not A Death sentence in America .People go to jail not to be blown up…Worry about America with gang ,drug attics,and KKK/Ice before trying to fix issues somewhere else.
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DeleteMijo!
He is worrying about America.
Stopping boats from delivering drugs to the USA. The fishes, dolphins, whales are now getting high, on the cocaine, that is blown into the waters.
1:37 fentanyl pendejo...
DeleteWhales will be losing a lot of weight now
1:37 fentanyl pendejo...
DeleteWhales will be losing a lot of weight now
What a shame you couldn’t pass 2nd grade.
DeleteICE isn’t hard enough! Fuck you for illegally coming here and sucking my tax paying cock! Constantly sucking sucking the middle class tax paying cock you faggots! Come here begging cheating stealing pathetic. You men who sneak here and suck the tax paying cock are pathetic cowards who can’t make it in your shithole country!
DeleteNo more cartels, mafias, fentanyl, or illegals.
ReplyDeleteFirst country to claim responsibility or ownership for these boats can be the first to step into a war with United States. Until then we can keep sending these pirate terrorist to appointment with st Peter to keep protecting international waters . Either shut up , or Encourage your country of choice to step and claim ownership and responsibility for their lovely citizens and boats
ReplyDeleteCoward just like the draft dodging orange trick
Delete1:57
DeleteHow can a country claim responsibility or ownership when the alleged drug runners are non-state actors? Have you looked up maritime piracy laws?
It breaks my heart to inform you that following the rein of President Trump (or as you say the orange trick) you can expect 8 more years of orange American justice when President JD Vance takes over the reins in 2028. 11 more years! 11 more years! Orange Justice til the year 2036!
DeleteClearly fishing vessels, you need 60k worth of outboard motors to chase them fast fish!
ReplyDeleteI've seen up to 5 engines in some ocean fishing boats.
DeleteNo you havent, not in latin america
DeleteThere coming from Venezuela Mijo.
ReplyDeleteTherefore Maduro will claim them.
Bravo President Trump bravo.....
ReplyDeleteAbout time we have a president standing up and doing the hard work that is required.....kill them all.
Best president in modern American history, exactly what we voted for and Trump is delivery....bravo.
Puerto Rican? Don't you mean Salt water Mexican?! Bravo my fellow MAGAts. Ping Buffy later for the scissor sesh. Nuff Said!!!
DeleteI hate trump hope he goes away for good live in jefres island with teenagers. But I hate drug dealers or traffickers more.
ReplyDeleteImagine the kingpin buyers in USA rather than their load getting seized now they watch it fkn explode along with the boat & mules… all that money bombed by their own country & I bet they’re still on the hook to pay for all that contraband, if that’s even what’s on these dinghies hard to tell after being disintegrated by a missile
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows these are drug traffickers. Be real. Anyone who has been around these coasts knows this is not what fishing boats look like
ReplyDeleteSheimbaum must answer to Mencho amid Trumps campaign to quell the narcotics trade
ReplyDeleteGood Job Trump!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNow bomb NYC, that shit hole in philly, skit row LA and every other shit hole drug den America has!!!!!