Mexican researchers say U.S. Republican candidates proposals to bomb country is the wrong way to attack drug cartels, and instead of repressive measures it should be attacking recruitment.
On Friday, the Texas representative will introduce a resolution rebuking recent pushes to conduct military operations against Mexican cartels without Mexico’s consent or congressional authorization.
The first time Donald Trump talked privately about shooting missiles into Mexico to take out drug labs, as far as his former aides can recall, was in early 2020. And the first time those comments became public was when his second defense secretary, Mark Esper, wrote in his memoir that Trump had raised it with him and asked if the United States could make it look as if some other country was responsible. Esper portrayed the idea as ludicrous. Yet instead of condemning the idea, some Republicans p