Trump Designating Cartels Terrorists Isn’t ‘Worrisome’ To Lawful U.S. Gun Manufacturers: The Assertion that U.S. Firearm Manufacturers ‘sell arms to criminals’ is a Flat-Out Lie; If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Mexico Is Their State Sponsor

Trump Designating Cartels Terrorists Isn’t ‘Worrisome’ To Lawful U.S. Gun Manufacturers:

The assertion that U.S. firearm manufacturers ‘sell arms to criminals’ is a flat-out lie

President Donald Trump’s State Department has officially designated several murderous drug cartels, including Tren de Aragua and MS-13, as foreign terrorist organizations. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Juan Pablo Spinetto labeled that decision “worrying” while attempting to argue against the president’s move.

Never mind the thousands of lives lost every year to drug cartel violence in both Mexico and the United States. Pay no attention to the more than 250,000 American deaths since 2018 from illegal drug use by fentanyl smuggled into the United States from Mexico across a virtually open Biden-era border. Disregard that after four years of woeful inaction by an American president barely at the steering wheel, the new Trump administration is following through with the campaign promises he made to the American people to protect them from such violence. Spinetto has other concerns.

While describing to readers why, in his determination, President Trump’s move forward to label Mexican narco-terrorist drug cartels as international terrorist organizations would be “worrisome,” Spinetto takes an uninformed and bogus potshot at the lawful and highly-regulated U.S. firearm industry.

“The proposal to treat cartels as terrorists … adds significant collateral risks: Anyone who has contacts with narcos, knowingly or not, could be accused of collaborating with terrorists, from avocado producers in Michoacán that pay to stay alive to the US gun industry that has been selling arms to criminals,” Spinetto writes. The assertion that U.S. firearm manufacturers “sell arms to criminals” is a flat-out lie.

Mexico, of course, has no Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for its citizens and the one and only firearm retailer in the country is in the heart of Mexico City, located on a military base. Firearms legally exported from the United States to the Mexican military have gone through rigorous and thorough end-to-end security checks, attempting to ensure that American-made guns do not fall into the hands of anyone else, especially the cartels.

After all, there are documented reports of Mexican soldiers defecting to work for narco-terrorist drug cartels, bringing with them over 150,000 firearms stolen from Mexican armories. Virtually all of the firearms used by the Mexican drug cartels, on the other hand, are illicitly possessed illegal arms unlawfully smuggled into Mexico by a network of drug cartels, through theft or straight-up government corruption. These facts are well known. Spinetto knows all of this too, of course, but the facts are inconvenient for his argument. —>READ MORE HERE

If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Mexico Is Their State Sponsor

The naming of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization might mean the collapse of the Mexican government.

ews broke Wednesday that the State Department has named eight Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, two of the most powerful criminal organizations in the country.

The naming of Sinaloa in particular is important because it implicates the Mexican state at the highest levels. Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his ruling MORENA coalition are closely connected to the Sinaloa Cartel, as is his protégé and successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum. It’s not too much to say that if the Sinaloa Cartel is a terrorist organization, then MORENA and the Sheinbaum administration are its state sponsors.

There is a mountain of evidence for this. The Sinaloa Cartel has long been deeply invested in Mexican national politics, and began bankrolling López Obrador’s political career as early as 2006, when AMLO, as he is called in Mexico, ran for president and narrowly lost to Felipe Calderón, who launched the Mexican drug war by deploying the armed forces against the cartels.

Sinaloa first backed AMLO in exchange for promises that he would facilitate the cartels’ operations — an investment that paid off handsomely in the end. During his stint in office, from 2018 to 2024, AMLO did his utmost to protect the cartel not only from the United States but also from elements of the Mexican military and security establishment. And he didn’t really try to hide it. Not only did AMLO publicly pay his respects to the mother of former Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera on one of his many trips to the Sinaloa headquarters town of Badiraguato, he also ordered the release of one of El Chapo’s sons after Sinaloa armed forces besieged the town of Culiacan, where the kingpin’s son had been detained by Mexican troops executing a U.S. arrest warrant.

In 2020, AMLO demanded the release of Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, a former Mexican defense secretary who was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Trump’s Attorney General William Barr foolishly agreed to release Cienfuegos as requested, whereupon Mexican authorities promptly cleared the former flag officer of all wrongdoing.

A cartoonishly corrupt series of events soon followed. AMLO accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug trafficking charges against Cienfuegos, and on AMLO’s orders, Mexican prosecutors released hundreds of pages of files on the retired general they had obtained from their U.S. counterparts. Soon after this, according to a report on the Cienfuegos affair by ProPublica, “Joint operations against drug traffickers came to a standstill. U.S. agents reported being followed by what appeared to be Mexican army surveillance teams.” Mexico removed immunity for DEA agents and restricted their operations. This is more or less where things stand today in terms of U.S.-Mexico cooperation against the cartels.

All of which brings us back to the designation of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization. In one of the first statements issued by the Trump White House concerning U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods, the Trump administration declared, “the Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico.” —>READ MORE HERE

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