The drug cartel of Mexico is so difficult, so powerful, that under acute pressure, they make diamonds rather than uprooted.
Between yearsBloody turf warNew tariffs with the aim of killing the global narcotics market andThousandsArmy soldiers on the border are feeling cartel pressure.
Result? The two most notorious Cartel, Sinaloa and Jalisco new generations have decided sidewaysUnite and conquerIn an unprecedented alliance.
In the global organized crime, there is a demand for seismic change that the US immediately reconsidered its view. Because this “super-carrt” will not be just a criminal syndicate trafficking migrants and drugs: it will be more operated like an evil state.
Separately, Cartel was already responsible for more30,000 deaths annuallyTogether, they now command the Phantanile supply chain, digital surveillance networks and a loyal, militaryized workforce in more than 100 countries. A union dramatically increases their ability to violence, smuggling and political influence.
Nevertheless, American policy treats cartel like road gangs.
President Trump’s recent stepNominated them as terrorist organizationsHe made headlines as his talk about military action. But danger will not solve this crisis. Trump should take Cartel and his insidious grip seriously on power. We have seen “Breaking bed“; There is no clean end to the story.
Heavy American military infiltration triggers the risk that actually thrives on the cartel: anarchy. We know from 2019Failed attemptTo catch El Chapo’s son that when provoked, cartel rocket launchers, grenades and machine guns, riots, take riots and roll out to the entire cities within hours.
And broad “war on drugs” is a failure. It triggers900 percent increaseIn cartel activity, while annual forced disappearance in MexicoOver 18 to 3,000 in just six yearsPriority to war on the community, and cooperation left a generation caught between bullets and silence.
If we are now calling Cartel terrorists, we should also answer that we did another non-state threat with global reach and paramilitary power.
ISIS was not defeated by a drone strike alone. It formulated a coalition strategy in which financial disruption, partnership with Syrian and Iraqi ground forces, merged community stabilization, and anti-cutting of weak youth.
And this last point is particularly relevant.
Cartel is the fifth largest employer in Mexico, and they are recruiting children and teenagers to maintain their cruel empires. Some estimate shows that460,000 as young mexicanOrganized crime.
Some are wooed by promises of money or security, others with fear or force. But in many cases, this is only because they have no choice – no school, no job, no future.
It is a human, developmental and moral emergency. And it reflects the same mobility that allows violent extremist groups to flourish.
In the fight against ISIS, American military forces played a decisive role, but as an important ground -level actor, who had reduced the group’s ideology from ground up.
In the US, the community network quietly instigated the impact of ISIS: dismissing its principle from the Pulp, promoting interface solidarity and helping law enforcement support in risky youth.
In Dallas, local Muslims hosted workshops for parents and teenagers for opposing extremist publicity, while its Imam preachedCondemnationIsis is promoting citizen engagement as an antidote as an un-Islamic and for separation.
On a global level,Muslim world leagueThe world’s largest Islamic non-governmental organization, publicly and repeatedly condemns ISIS as a heretics, snatchs the group of any claim of religious validity.
Under the leadership of Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa, Muslim World League called 1,200 scholars from 139 countries to support 2019Maize charter– A historical rejection of terrorism, extremism and communalism. Al-Issa also conveyed this message to global leadersEuropean ParliamentCondemning terrorism and urging international cooperation to combat bigotry.
This lesson should be used to defeat cartel violence today. already a2023 studiesIt was found that the most effective way to weaken the cartel is to disrupt their ability to recruit. This means investing in education, empowering local leadership and attaching leaders, teachers and NGOs to provide real options for crime to the youth.
We can begin to out-and-out, out-recourse and out-and-out, which behave them like geopolitical actors they have become. This means that the support of local security forces in Mexico and inhibiting the financial ecosystem of training and cartoles, including US-based money laundering and hard enforcement on arms smuggling.
This also means that the expansion of intelligence-sharing beyond the drug enforcement agency in cartel-witting areas and the expansion of intelligence beyond the operation of the drug enforcement agency focuses on a broad, civil-de-dominated inter-intensity structure.
There is nothing wrong with the Trump administration that wants to lead to deal with the cartel, but it may not be successful unilaterally, nor considering Mexico as a failed state.
Fortunately, we have just reached a moment where goodwill is being capitalized. Mexico recently sent civil security and fire fighting units to TexasHelpState efforts to recover floods. The same collaborative spirit can help create a new cross-border alliance contained in mutual interest and shared sovereignty.
There is no doubt, for America, this is a new cold war. But this time it is being teased between the network, not the nation. And the cartel back from the streets to the boardroom, switching to the cyber network from the Toden cocaine routes well.
When it comes to dealing with the new super-corrts, we need a strategy created on shared intelligence, economic development, social security and joint security. Walls and weapons can only go so far.
Palina Velasko is a dual Mexican-American citizen and political strategist, leading to a large scale advocacy and communication campaigns in California with more than 15 years of experience. A former investment officer for the Malaysian Consulate at Los Angeles, he has also served in Azuja Human Rights Commission and San Diego County Environment Commission.
