In this exclusive interview on NTD News, security expert Ammon Blair explains why Mexican President Sheinbaum’s strategy of targeting cartel leaders hasn’t stopped the flow of drugs into the United States. Blair reveals a stark reality: Mexican cartels have infiltrated government structures at every level, from local to federal.
Key Topics Discussed:
– Why arresting cartel leaders hasn’t reduced drug trafficking to the US
– The deep integration between Mexican cartels and government institutions
– How the current situation differs from 1980s-90s Colombia’s drug war
– Parallels between Mexico’s cartel problem and Afghanistan’s insurgency-government dynamics
– The challenges of combating narco-trafficking when criminal organizations control state apparatus
Blair argues that unlike the Colombian government’s fight against the Medellín and Cali cartels decades ago, Mexico now faces a situation where criminal organizations and government entities have become “one and the same” at multiple levels.