When Donald Trump, then President of the United States, suggested shooting migrants in the legs and sending missiles into Mexico to destroy narcotics labs there, he did so privately.
Republican Party politicians are now venting their bloodlust in public. If the slogan “Let’s build the wall” [celui de Trump en 2016] loses ground, it is gradually replaced within the right by another formula: “Let’s bomb the Mexicans”.
On June 26, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – Trump’s main competitor for the Republican presidential nomination – promised to deploy the US military against transnational cartels in Mexico and defended the execution of people who cross the border in possession of drugs. “We can totally use lethal force”, did he declare.
Instrumentalising fentanyl victims
All of the best-placed candidates for the Republican nomination in 2024 favor a counterterrorism operation against Mexico’s cartels, sometimes in defiance of what Mexico thinks of it. Trump called for “battle plans” to target drug traffickers “as we destroyed Daesh”.
This idea instrumentalizes the mourning of tens of thousands of Americans who have lost loved ones following an overdose of fentanyl, sometimes made in Mexico from chemical compounds imported from China.
Bills introduced by Republicans in both houses of Congress seek to allow military force in Mexico. Other texts propose that cartels in Mexico be classified as foreign terrorist organizations or that fentanyl be considered a weapon of mass destruction, among other suggestions.
No one within the political class has yet suggested bombing
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