Rejecting a renewed “war” against drug traffickers, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday unveiled her strategy to battle organized crime in a nation where each day brings word of new assassinations, gang wars, massacres and other bloodshed.
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Instead, she outlined a four-point strategy that emphasized intelligence-gathering, troop deployment, improved federal-state coordination and providing opportunities to dissuade impoverished young people from joining organized crime — which is among Mexico’s major employers.
A centerpiece of the plan is doubling down on the often-criticized “hugs not bullets” strategy of Sheinbaum’s predecessor and mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Solution: legalize all drugs. Make it so you can buy them in pharmacies. Legalize production. Make Mexico the biggest goddamn coke producer on earth. And weed. And fentanyl. Legalize everything in the US as well. If people want to do drugs let them fucking do drugs.
Suddenly, all the cartels become legit employers. They start paying taxes. Instead of shooting each other down cartels start suing each other. They are colluding to fixate prices? Let the antitrust authority deal with that.
Let the narco bosses become CEOs and the employees become shareholders. Create a narcotics workers union and give workers favorable conditions. 30 days PTO, sick pay, 6 hour shifts, 4 day work week, night and weekend shift bonuses. Let the cartels hire marketing departments and let them compete through brand strategy and product quality. Give me that nose avalanche 100% purity coke and I’m happy to pay extra.
We have the military industrial complex, nestle privatizing water wells in Africa and the tobacco and alcohol industry. What harm does it do to add another bunch of psychopaths that do whatever they have to anyway?