Despite the fact that President Joseph Biden mentioned several times as a claim Mexico's role in smuggling fentanyl into the United States, which is killing Americans by overdose, there was no pronouncement or even less any commitment to seek to combat the consumption of that drug among American addicts.
In many ways it has been said in the media that the demand for drugs determines the supply of the cartels and that little will be achieved by trying to arrest and imprison only renowned drug trafficking figures, without making decisions to dismantle the structures of smuggling, distribution and sale of drugs on the streets of the United States.
In 2011, President Barack Obama pulled out of the hat the argument of the famous transnational criminal organizations that are based in countries south of the Rio Grande, but that – as the DEA has reconfirmed many times – operate with impunity within the United States and control the retail sale of drugs.
A true U.S. commitment against drug trafficking should begin with operational decisions to dismantle the Mexican cartels that dominate drug distribution in 40 U.S. states, continue with communication programs to spread the damage caused by drugs and above all combat consumption with all the security structure that exists.
However, the U.S. wants other countries to destroy drug trafficking structures in other nations, while maintaining the existence of millions of addicts who consume drugs every day and that these are supplied by the same Mexican and South American cartels.
As long as the United States does not combat consumption, the cartels will continue to grow.
Ground Zero
Canada's denunciation of insecurity in Mexico and the warning to its nationals to prevent tourist visits to 14 Mexican states fell like a bucket of cold water on the state visit of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but it was given a reading of economic strategy to force the Mexican Government, and especially the President of the Republic, to address the complaints of Canadian businessmen who denounce bias and institutional in the freezing or annulment of contracts within the Free Trade Agreement to benefit the CFE.
(*) Center for Economic, Political and Security Studies.
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