Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned that if the U.S. designates Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, Mexico may expand its lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers, alleging complicity in organized crime.
The U.S. State Department reportedly plans to classify major cartels as terrorist groups, escalating tensions. A previous $10 billion Mexican lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers was dismissed, but legal efforts continue.
Mexico blames U.S. firearms for fueling cartel violence, while rejecting U.S. claims of government-cartel alliances.
The dispute coincides with trade threats, including possible tariffs on Mexican goods.
Which do you consider “the real problems”? Because the US government has been organizing and partly controlling the drug trade to the US from central and south America in order to arm fascist groups, destabilize countries and justify US military and intelligence bases.
Of course Mexico only blocking gun smuggling from the US wont solve things. The US government and intelligencr ultimately needs to be mostly dismantled and completely reworked. But thats a bit much for Mexico to demand at the moment.
The real problem is the American government is implicit in the drug and weapons trade and the Mexican government(political parties) is implicit in the cartel business. No one can admit to anything, neither side can solve this unless without massive discomfort and collateral damage.