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Alexandra Ulmer - Reuters
US President-elect Donald Trump says he will launch a new anti-drug advertising campaign emphasising the physical impact of taking drugs like fentanyl and has repeated a threat to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations.
"We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you. They ruin your look, they ruin your face, they ruin your skin, they ruin your teeth," Trump said at a conference of the conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday.
Trump gave few concrete details about the ad campaign, which he does not appear to have mentioned before and that he likened to running a political campaign. He said his administration would spend "a lot of money" on the program but that it would be a "very small amount of money, relatively".
The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for further information.
Trump's plan has echoes of the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign, led by Republican former first lady Nancy Reagan in the 1980s to encourage young Americans to refuse drugs.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 Americans are projected to die from synthetic opioid overdoses this year, most from taking fentanyl or closely related drugs.
The fentanyl crisis featured heavily in Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, even though synthetic opioid deaths more than doubled under his 2017-2021 administration.
Trump also revived a campaign vow to designate Mexico's drug cartels as terrorist groups.
"I will immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organisations," Trump said.
While in office in 2019, Trump shelved such a plan at the request of Mexico's then-President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said he wanted US co-operation on fighting drug gangs, not intervention.
Some US officials had also privately expressed misgivings that the measure could damage relations with Mexico and hinder the Mexican government's fight against drug trafficking.
Trump's official election platform says that when he takes office he will order the Pentagon to use "special forces, cyber warfare, and other covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations"
If he sends special forces to mexico and ACTUALLY starts making mexico a better place, Mexicans will give him the respect and support including mine.
ReplyDeleteNo (Real )Mexican is going to want the US military invading Mexico . So no , this won’t ever happen.If it does it will be a bigger problem for the US as Mexico will turn its back on the US ,because it’s not respecting their sovereignty.It could even be the last drop causing Mexico to join BRICS . I mean it doesn’t get any clearer than that . Its like if Canada invaded the US militarly and supposedly wanted to help . Of course no real US patriot would be okay with it .
DeleteI support Trump sending special forces to Mexico, but what I don’t like it’s ignorant people that think this will be an easy job. People that think this will take no time to end the violence and cartels.
ReplyDeleteI always wondered , if drugs and cartels are a big problem for the American government how come they never send help to Mexico ? They send help to countries that are in the other side of the world but not their neighboring countries.
ReplyDeleteThey send help all the time in the form of monetary and actual help training law enforcement in Mexico. Look for Merida Initiative
DeleteWe do help the Mexican goat (aka cartels). We send them guns. 😉
DeleteI’ve seen this news on other platforms and I don’t know if people are dumb or just ignorant saying " this will be a piece of cake “ or " they will end the cartels in a week”
ReplyDeleteLike use your brains and actually do some research on cartels, they are not your neighbors gangster.
I’ll give Trump my respect if he actually makes mexico safe again, and that comes from someone that lives in Ensenada.
ReplyDeleteIf he makes Mexico safe there’s high percentage of Mexicans not wanting to come to the United States, violence is a big factor of why Mexicans go into the country.
ReplyDeleteQue carajos ! Ayuden a nuestro Venezuela dejen a mexico , ellos ya están acostumbrados a la guerra.
ReplyDeleteHe would have to be stupid to do this. Who do you think will offer to aid Mexico when its sovereignty is attacked? Here's a guess: Russia and China. Why, you ask? Because the U.S. would have lost its ally to the South. Not just that, you would have to assume that all Latin American countries would support Mexico defending its sovereignty at all costs. Think of the economic impact on all of the Americas if this goes down.
ReplyDeleteMexicans4Trump!
ReplyDeleteExcept for some remote places in the country sides of Mexico cartel members are not randomly driving caravans of vehicles or armored vehicles and are not hanging out or in groups of hundreds like real terrorists are.
ReplyDeleteYeah cartels cause chaos to some extent but look up "the real Mexico nobody shows you" in YouTube and you'll see plenty videos of places in Mexico where there is zero to no violence by cartels on any given day in planty cities in Mexico. Cities as in populations over one hundred thousand people.
So to label cartels terrorist is another attempt at appealing to racist voters by a red head former POTUS.
If this happens because the US claims to have a right to attack Mexico (yes Mexico for the attacks will be set there), then China will feel free to attack Taiwan and Russia anywhere else they want simply because they also claim the right to attack their interests.
Bunch of idiots talk.