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autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in southern Mexico as rival cartels fight for control of routes used to smuggle drugs and migrants.

Criminal organisations like the CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel have been infiltrating the region because of its proximity to the border with Guatemala and important transit routes for migrants, whom they extort.

In a statement, the community described “the pain at seeing children and youths trembling in fear and getting sick from having to live through these traumatic experiences”.

However, the Chiapas state prosecutor’s office released a statement five days later saying that it had not received any reports of any killings in the area.

Entire families have left their homes and crossed the nearby Angostura lake by boat to escape the violence over the past days.

Chiapas civil protection official Luis Manuel García Moreno told Radio Fórmula that 701 people had fled to the city of Comitán, most of them women and children.

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TropicalDingdong ,

The US probably could have prevented this by shifting its drug policy about two decades ago.

At this point, idk. I dont see how civil society in Mexico takes it back.

Diplomjodler ,

They have always known exactly what they were doing and they never had any intention to do anything differently.

TropicalDingdong ,

I just don’t understand how having a weak and corrupted neighbor makes you as a nation stronger. It seems imbecilic at best, and especially naiive considering the history of free trade agreements between the US, Canada, and Mexico. I think its rather, an issue of competing factors, and because of arcane drug policy, the US has exceptionally weakened its self from an international trade perspective. Having a strong, very close, very large border sharing neighbor with a good manufacturing economy would be great for the US. The less stable they are, the worse the US is.

So I reject your premise. I think ‘they’ have no fucking clue what they are doing and have implemented competing, irrational agendas over the previous 2-3 decades, resulting in a compromising of the Mexican national government, where cartels fill the void because of a dysfunctional state. In fact your premise is so weakly thought out, it can’t possibly be so.

Diplomjodler ,

So the US doesn’t have a century long record of meddling in Latin America in order to keep the governments weak and societies easily exploitable? No coups, no United Fruit, nothing?

TropicalDingdong ,

Yes, but also of free trade agreements to keep the wheels on the capitalist wagon rolling. Doing both at once is bad state craft, because we’re inevitably dependent on Mexico for manufacturing (because we dismantled/ sold our own) and yet we’ve de-stabilized the entire hemispheres political order for the purposes of… well… for supposed purpose. You aren’t obligated to believe the people who provided the reasons for doing so. In retrospect, much of the destabilization seems to be about very short term access to markets and ‘because we can’. There doesn’t appear to have been any kind of decadal project around state building to have better allies and partners to work with, which again, is my main premise. The people who have historically decided and determined the paths of foreign policy have no fucking clue what they are doing, and implement often contradictory approaches, that have the long term consequence of putting the country the policies are supposedly there to benefit, into the weakest position possible. A ‘worst of all worlds’ approach.

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