As President Donald Trump considers military action against cartel labs in Mexico, the country’s president said Tuesday “it’s not going to happen” \u2014 the firmest statement yet from the Mexican leader that U.S. forces aren’t invited or welcome to attack fentanyl and methamphetamine factories there.<\/p>\n
“Would I knock out those factories? I would be proud to do it personally,” said President Donald Trump on Monday.<\/p>\n
With Mexico\u2019s police and military unable to curb the tide of fiery violence here…or interrupt the supply lines of deadly fentanyl and methamphetamines, a White House plan would be aimed at intervening. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, President Claudia Sheinbaum said she isn’t going to ask for U.S. military assistance and that they don’t want any foreign intervention.<\/p>\n
Sheinbaum told reporters that Mexico wants collaboration and coordination with the U.S., but not subordination-and that Mexico won’t allow American intervention.<\/p>\n
President Trump has repeatedly suggested he doesn’t need Mexico\u2019s blessing to attack and eliminate cartel command. But a White House plan to attack Mexican cartel sites seems to be evolving.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t say I’m doing it,\u201d said President Trump. \u201cBut, I would be proud to do it because we’re going to save millions of lives by doing it.”<\/p>\n
U.S. Marines were in live fire training last summer north of the Mexico border; as Trump administration officials debated the size and scope of cartel takedown operations-whether by ground troops, drone strikes or both.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Chicago, there have been thousands of overdose deaths the past decades with 85% of illicit street drugs via\u00a0 the Sinaloa cartel run by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman\u2014now locked up for life at the Supermax prison in Colorado.<\/p>\n
Cartel drug sales in Chicago are now brought to the area by kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, and his new generation cartel. El Mencho is under indictment in Chicago for alleged racketeering and operating a drug trafficking enterprise.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had El Mencho as a fugitive for 10 years. It’s about time they brought him in,” said retired Drug Enforcement Administration official Michael Gannon.<\/p>\n
U.S. military intervention against the cartels in Mexico is a good idea according to Gannon, who was assistant special agent in charge of the Chicago DEA division.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s complicated when you have Mexico, it’s obviously it borders our country and you want to be in collaborative efforts with them,\u201d observed Gannon. \u201cBut look, they need us. They need to give the green light.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former DEA official is an advocate for the type of law enforcement\/military joint operation that is under consideration by federal officials. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is when you have drug cartels, they’re billion-dollar organizations and that they’re not going to stop,\u201d said Gannon. \u201cThe way you have to stop them–you have to punch them right in the mouth.”<\/p>\n
Before the U.S. can land a punch, they have to find the cartel leadership in Mexico. <\/p>\n
And El Mencho\u2014Chicago’s Public Enemy No. 1\u2014is also a slippery fugitive. <\/p>\n
There is currently a $15 million reward for Mencho\u2019s arrest. <\/p>\n
As the NBC Chicago investigative team reported two weeks ago, El Mencho\u2019s cartel is among six in Mexico that have now been designated as foreign terrorist organizations-which allows the U.S. military and spy agencies wide legal latitude to go after them and their leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As President Donald Trump considers military action against cartel labs in Mexico, the country’s president said Tuesday “it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,40983],"class_list":{"0":"post-388932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-nbc-5-investigates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115574027415185395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}