Incoming Mexican president to seek negotiated peace in drug war

[TomSea]

Incoming Mexican president to seek negotiated peace in drug war
Diego Oré

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s transition team unveiled a plan on Friday to shake up the fight against crime, including reduced jail time but stiffer controls on weapons, as the country reels from a militarized drug war.

The concept of “transitional justice” is part of the incoming government’s integral security strategy, Olga Sanchez, Lopez Obrador’s proposed interior minister, told Reuters in an interview before her team unveiled the plan.

Transitional justice typically involves leniency for those who admit guilt, truth commissions to investigate atrocities and the granting of reparations for some victims.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-crime/incoming-mexican-president-to-seek-negotiated-peace-in-drug-war-idUSKBN1JW22S

[DB]

What a moron.

Build the damn wall!

[Sanguine]

Hmmm.  Who is it he thinks he will be "negotiating" with?  And, what kind of terms will be acceptable to both sides?

[DB]

Hmmm.  Who is it he thinks he will be "negotiating" with?  And, what kind of terms will be acceptable to both sides?

Appeasement never works. It just gives the bully more space to do his thing.

[txradioguy]

Makes you wonder if there is some cartel $$$$ in his election bank account.

[Sanguine]

Makes you wonder if there is some cartel $$$$ in his election bank account.

There's got to be something like that.  What can you offer a drug cartel guy to make him want to work with you?

[Fishrrman]

Someone ought to pass this bit of advice on to Senior Obrador:

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
 - Ayn Rand

[skeeter]

There's got to be something like that.  What can you offer a drug cartel guy to make him want to work with you?

Safe passage for their products to the border.

[txradioguy]

Safe passage for their products to the border.

That would explain why he's pulling Army units away from the country's Northern border.  Not that they did much good.  The cartels bought off Army units at various times and the Border Patrol has actually been in shooting incidents with Mexican Army troops on our side of the border who were providing cover for the drug mules.

[DB]

There's got to be something like that.  What can you offer a drug cartel guy to make him want to work with you?

More customers or less law enforcement.

[Cyber Liberty]

The author of the OP misspelled "surrender."  But, can it really be a proper surrender if he's already on their side?

[skeeter]

That would explain why he's pulling Army units away from the country's Northern border.  Not that they did much good.  The cartels bought off Army units at various times and the Border Patrol has actually been in shooting incidents with Mexican Army troops on our side of the border who were providing cover for the drug mules.

Maybe el Presidente has promised to lower the price he charges the cartels for subcontract security.

[Cyber Liberty]

That would explain why he's pulling Army units away from the country's Northern border.  Not that they did much good.  The cartels bought off Army units at various times and the Border Patrol has actually been in shooting incidents with Mexican Army troops on our side of the border who were providing cover for the drug mules.

Yeah, Mexican "soldiers" and the Federales bring to mind the old adage, "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"  I think their withdrawal from the Northern Border will be a positive development.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

A few well placed nukes is looking like the optimum solution.