


President-elect Trump is already getting big results from Mexico after his threat of tariffs and military action against the drug cartels, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ writes that Mexico is setting up an elite unit of officers to fight the drug cartels who will be both vetted and trained by the US.
During his campaign, Trump said he would take military action against cartels, impose a naval embargo to prevent drugs from crossing the border and designate cartels and their leaders as foreign terrorists. Separately, the Republican president-elect has threatened 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico if the country doesn’t stop the flow of migrants and fentanyl. The Republican Party’s platform includes use of the military at the border.
In response, Sheinbaum has rushed to show her administration isn’t soft on drugs and migrants. Her government has gone after fentanyl smugglers in Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, seizing 1.3 tons of the drug in a record bust. She has sent her security minister to Sinaloa to oversee the efforts to take back control of a state where organized crime dominates the political establishment and two factions are in a turf war.
Mexico is in talks to set up a unit of elite security officers who would be vetted and trained by U.S. law-enforcement officials for operations against criminals in Mexico, according to Mexican officials.
This feels like an entirely different presidency than Trump’s first term and his second term hasn’t even begun yet. He’s already got Mexico and Canada on their heels and he’s putting the screws to Panama. That’s just in this hemisphere.