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.

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[+] -41 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Hang all drug dealers. That's what we do in SEA. Note, drug dealers, not drug users.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How do you hang people at sea?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is, frankly, a very ignorant take. What SEA does works because y'all only have drug dealers, not cartels. Mexican cartels are very powerful, more so than the government itself, and trying to cull them by force would throw the country into civil war.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, let's go live to Duterte now, how'd that plan go for him? Oh, it seems like there were a ton of extrajudicial killings that they couldn't ever confirm to human rights groups if the people being murdered were actually drug dealers, or just political dissidents.

    Aw shucks, unfortunately it seems like empowering vigilante groups to murder anyone they perceived as a drug dealer without requiring investigations was a bad idea after all.

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