Earlier this year, U.S.-Mexico security experts played around with the unfathomable idea that the U.S. was preparing for unilateral military action in Mexico. In February, the Trump administration declared five Mexican-based cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, laying the legal groundwork for rationalizing military intervention.
The rhetoric changed in September, when President Trump shifted his attention to Venezuela as the beacon of drug trafficking networks threatening U.S. interests. Reports of American warships stationed in the southern Caribbean and U.S. bombings of small craft allegedly carrying drugs harkened a change from the single-minded focus on fentanyl production in Mexico.
Is news filtering out of U.S. military preparations for a potential mission in Mexico to attack the cartels?
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Source: The Hill
