Mexico, the infinite homeland we love, our sweet and sacred land, today lies prostrate before an enemy that respects neither life nor law: the drug cartels. In this scenario of decay, Donald Trump has put forth a proposal that shakes the hypocritical leftists and their false nationalism: using drones to selectively attack these criminal groups.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has tried to wrap herself in an outdated leftist discourse of supposed defense of sovereignty, which sounds more like an empty echo, responding "no" to that option.
But the truth, as raw as ever, forces us to face it: Sheinbaum must accept this strategic support, not out of submission, but out of necessity, pragmatism, and because the current Mexico demands urgent solutions from an authority we no longer find within our borders.
First, we must ask ourselves bluntly: Does Sheinbaum want to end the cartels? In the doubtful case that she does, the lady can't crush them by herself.
It is not a lack of character, but there is a network of complicities that runs through the heart of Morena and its allies. Governors, mayors, and high-ranking officials have taken advantage of drug trafficking as a lucrative business, with a diabolical pact that sustains their coffers and their power.
According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), between 2018 and 2024, under AMLO's mandate, the cartels expanded their control to about a third of Mexican territory, with a 24% increase in armed confrontations between criminal groups and state forces in 2023 compared to 2022.
What can a president do when her own party is infiltrated by interests that thrive in the shadows? The 4T promised transformation, but instead of purifying the system, it has flooded it with sewage. The cartels not only traffic drugs: they traffic weapons, migrants, children, prostitute women, kidnap, kill, demand protection money, extort... and traffic influences, and those influences reach the pinnacles of Mexican power.
Second, Trump is not going to wait for a formal "yes". If he decides to act, the drones will simply be launched, period. Do you remember what happened on January 2, 2020 at Baghdad airport? Trump approved a drone attack against Iranian General Qasem Soleimani accused of causing hundreds of American deaths. He died there.
And this year, just a few days ago, on Saturday, March 15, Trump ordered a large-scale bombing against Houthi terrorists in Yemen (financed by Iran), eliminating 53 of them.
The United States doesn't consult when it feels its security threatened, and the Mexican cartels—already declared as "terrorists" and de facto aligned with the Red Dragon and its hegemonic Chinese communist interests—with their flow of fentanyl—and the 250,000 annual deaths they have caused—and their cross-border violence, are a clear danger to them.
