Mexico rapper QBA 'dissolved film students' bodies in acid' - Sensationalist Headlines

Yeah... really makes you think huh??

Legalize and tax cocaine.

Uhm, yes you could say that, yeah.

Mexico is something else man. Imagine if the SAS decided they were evil, sectioned off the south of england, killed every criminal organization in the most brutal ways possible, kicked out the government and started running their territory as something between the mafia and an actual sovreign state/government, but without even the basic honor the mob had. It sounds impossible, but that's what Los Zetos did with the northwest of mexico. It's fucking nuts.

Imagine a conflict between the cartels and the US military. Where one side is funded by US citizens through taxpayer money... And the other side is also funded by US citizens through drug addictions. Actual effective policy to combat drug problems in this nation would go a long way towards crippling the cartels.

We gotta build some kind of screen door to keep those cartel guys from getting in through our patio. Wait a minute

Some parts of Mexico already are cartel states. They literally buy their way into power in the portions of Mexico in which their HQs are set. They own the local LEO, they own the local governments, and their might is so strong that the federal Mexican government can't do much more than simply contain them. It really would take proper military intervention on our part to do anything about the problem, but as others have mentioned, it would end up a massive clusterfuck. The only other method to deal with them is to cut off their money supply. Legalizing a lot of stuff will go a long way towards doing that, though obviously we can't legalize every product they sell.

Na man, Ive seen a video where they kill 3 people with an axe, and then hack off body parts and just drop it into a barrell of Acid. Theyre pretty fucked up.

That could work too.

The truth is that cartels will never go out of business as long as there are people willing to pay them for producing and smuggling product over the border and overseas. "Sending aid" would be useless. Police doesn't want to fight them because they're not paid enough to risk their lives. The military does deals with criminal organizations, most people who live in Mexico know that there are such things as rogue military/police patrols that go around certain areas killing or kidnapping people, in short our military simply cannot be trusted. It goes without saying that criminals in Mexico are a special case. Here you are dealing with people who don't mind killing children and vulnerable people, some of them take any opportunity to hurt or steal from others, when the earthquake in Mexico City happened the past year, there were cases of people shooting each other over supplies and gangs of people stealing from dead bodies and assaulting groups of survivors. Worst part is that even if you manage to kill them, there are hundreds of children who are being trained and want to be part of a cartel, because in certain parts of the country, people are more likely to become drug lords than to get a fucking middle school degree. In short, to change Mexico you need to change its people, from corrupt politicians who make deals with cartels, business owners who exploit honest and noble workers, to its citizens, who break the law, give bribes to transit officers, skip red lights, take things that are not from them and anyone who shows a clear lack of values and morals.

Jesus, makes you wish you could just flip the reset switch

If the USA and Mexico decriminalized all drugs overnight like Portugal did, the cartels will dissolve on their own in <5 years. You wouldn't have to fire a bullet.

I'm pretty sure drugs in Portugal are still illegal - you just get sent off for treatment instead of getting criminal punishment when you're caught. It's obvious that's had benefits, but there are a number of factors unique to this situation that might not allow such effectiveness. I'm not an expert on the subject or anything, so just take this at face value, but my first thought is that it wouldn't really kill off the cartels, because I don't believe it'd make demand taper off all that much. The area that I live in is already very badly affected by the availability of things like cocaine, heroin, and meth. I can say with decent confidence that probably more than half of the people in the several cities around me are or have a family member that's addicted to hard drugs. I would hate to see that issue grow even more because suddenly nobody has to worry about being punished for their destructive behaviors, and I honestly believe that's what would happen.