US Assistance to Combat Drugs in Mexico
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
The drug phenomenon is reflected in other circumstances of the North American and Asian economic geopolitics that Mexico is experiencing. As with other products, Mexico serves as a springboard for entry into the North American market. The gravitational pull that the United States exerts on our country is inevitable, causing various elements to atomize and centrifuge toward the United States. Mexico lacks the consumer capacity developed in the North American economy, and therefore, most formal and informal trade lies hidden in Mexico, waiting to enter the United States. Producers and suppliers establish themselves in Mexico with empowerment and build opportunities to leapfrog over American consumerism.
As long as the demand and prices of the most diverse types of contraband are not regulated in the United States, informality will continue to become a key attraction that makes governability in Mexico unsustainable. Donald Trump's administration must contribute to the economic development of the Fourth Transformation to reduce this pull. Demanding that the Mexican government stop all forms of illegal trafficking of products that affect the economy of the Yankee Empire implies the bizarre assumption that a hummingbird can put out a forest fire. Donald Trump has been infected by the magical realism that distinguishes Mexican surrealism.
Mexico does not have the economic, military, or police structure to stop the evils affecting the United States. This is a task for North America, and Claudia Sheinbaum's administration, as well as the actors in the process, would have to explain this to the American consumer. The Mexican government and the cartels themselves have abandoned the task of lobbying the US Congress to insist on legalization and let the laws of the market do their will.
Like other countries tasked with becoming beachheads for Yankee imperialism and its geopolitics, Mexico must request and encourage the influx of economic resources from the US budget, as well as from the Pentagon, to strengthen the institutions responsible for the actions demanded by President Donald Trump. The White House administration must convince itself of Mexico's impossibility as a fortress shield in the immediate future; the corruption so often accused of the country poses a risk of stirring up the United States.
Mexico can fulfill the tasks entrusted to it by Donald Trump if, in the short term, the country changes to resemble South Korea, the Philippines, Spain, Kuwait, or South Africa; in short, there are broad examples. The distance separating the Mexican Republic from the position held by its US allies creates a negative neighborhood that harms US interests. Only aid similar to that provided by the United States to General Ávila Camacho during World War II will bring about the successful alliance that North America seeks. Otherwise, as has just happened in the US stock market, failure entails considerable costs. Even this aid can be audited, like the anti-communist support received during the Cold War, as well as other assistance certified by various international organizations.