After Killing of Top Narcoterrorist In Military Raid, Cartels Engage In Widespread Violence and Arson Across Mexico

Mexican police, with the assistance of US intelligence, killed a narcoterrorist during a raid.

They drug terrorists retaliated by killing a mayor and setting Mexico ablaze.

Major drug lord 'El Mencho' killed in Mexican military operation with US intelligence support

Nemesio Oseguera's death triggers widespread cartel violence across Mexico as armed groups block highways and burn vehicles

Cartel leader's death sparks violence in Mexico, US embassy issues shelter-in-place order

Major Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," was killed in a military operation Sunday morning, the country's Defense Department announced, marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels.
The announcement came as government officials warned of clashes in Jalisco state and widespread criminal activity across the country, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to issue shelter-in-place advisories for multiple states.
On Sunday, Mexican troops reportedly conducted operations in Tapalpa, Jalisco, targeting Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, a former police officer who became the elusive leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), a major supplier of fentanyl to the United States.
Known as "El Mencho," Oseguera Cervantes carried a $15 million U.S. bounty and rose to power following the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel. Over the past 15 years, CJNG has grown from a local criminal group into a global trafficking organization operating out of its stronghold in Jalisco.
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The Mexican Defense Department said the operation was conducted as part of bilateral coordination and cooperation with the U.S., whose authorities provided complementary intelligence that contributed to Oseguera Cervantes' capture.
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During the capture, the CJNG ringleader became wounded and died en route to Mexico City, the Defense Department said.
Four others were reportedly killed at the scene of a shootout between Mexican troops and criminal suspects in Jalisco, with Oseguera Cervantes among three additional individuals who were wounded and later died.
Authorities said they detained two other members of the criminal organization and seized a range of weaponry, including armored vehicles and "rocket launchers capable of downing aircraft and destroying armored vehicles."

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Widespread criminal activity has been reported in Jalisco, the cartel's stronghold, as well as in northern regions that serve as key border and transit corridors for the organization.
The Security Cabinet of the Government of Mexico noted that multiple buildings were reportedly damaged during the "violent incidents," including roughly 20 branches of Banco del Bienestar, a state-run banking institution.
At least 21 highways remain blocked, with authorities reporting that five have already been reopened.
Photos showed numerous roadblocks and burning vehicles, with dark smoke rising into the sky, across the country -- tactics officials say cartels often use to slow or block military operations.
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"We remain in Code Red. We reiterate the recommendation to avoid leaving your homes. The clashes are occurring in several federal entities," Jalisco state Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro added.

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The operation against Oseguera follows sustained pressure from the Trump administration on President Claudia Sheinbaum's government, urging Mexico to step up its fight against drug trafficking amid threats of potential U.S. intervention.
"There is absolute coordination with the governments of all states; we must remain informed and calm," Sheinbaum said on Sunday. "In the vast majority of the national territory, activities are proceeding with complete normality."

The president of Mexico was installed into office by the narcoterrorists. She is both an extreme leftist, an open borders (with the US) extremist, and a catspaw of the cartels.

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
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Cartel violence is being allowed in Mexico because President Claudia Sheinbaum works for the Cartel
A Senator from Mexico went on Fox News and exposed it all
* The President of Mexico works for the Cartels
* She was funded by money from the cartels
* It's not just the President, there are an entire group of Mexico politicians labeled the "arco politicians"
* Mexico is a "Narco state"
* Mexicans are afraid of the alliance between the Mexican government and the cartels
* The Morena (political party) is financed by the cartels, that's how they get elected
* Once they get elected the deal is for the Mexican government to then protect the cartels
* The President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo doesn't want this information getting out
* Mexicans and the Politicians who are no paid off by the cartels want Donald Trump to help with the cartels
The Mexico Senator exposing all this says she is now being threatened with prison for speaking out "The President has threatened me to proceed against me with criminal prosecution to get me out of the Senate and get me in jail just because I told you in this space in Fox News"
And now the assassination of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, an own cartel critic...
The cartel runs the Mexican government

She says that she will not join America in taking action against the cartels burning Mexico to the ground because drug terrorists have "human rights."

🚨JUST IN: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she doesn’t want to use force against the cartels because it would violate their human rights.

"Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework of the law." pic.twitter.com/gjEEbflhOi
— DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 (@1Nicdar) February 23, 2026

Trump has repeatedly offered her US help in confronting the cartels, and she has always insisted that they not be touched. Because she's on their payroll.

Meanwhile:

The Mexican drug cartel known as CJNG—one of the most ruthless criminal enterprises in the world—saw its profits explode from 2021-2025, with drug and human trafficking supercharged by Biden’s open-border policies.

Good to see Mexico pushing back.

Biden made that job harder. https://t.co/KEouQFEP4o
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 22, 2026

The people doing this to Mexico today are the same people ICE agents are trying to deport from the U.S.

Be more grateful to your government, liberals. pic.twitter.com/AC8KZhV9ID
— Mahyar Tousi (@MahyarTousi) February 22, 2026

That's not an idle claim. "El Mencho" was in fact the beneficiary of San Francisco's Sanctuary City policy. Dianne Feinstein gave him a helping hand when he needed one:

A reminder that the chaos in Mexico today as a result of the cartel targeting operation can be traced all the way back to El Mencho starting his criminal career in California

He was a beneficiary of the Sanctuary City welcome helpfully offered by Democrats, back under then-San… https://t.co/orpsMjodp9
— skepticalifornia (@skepticaliblog) February 23, 2026

Puerto Vallarta is now the Paris of the West, and I don't mean that in a good way.

BREAKING: Fires rage in the streets of Puerta Vallarta, Mexico as cartels burn cars in the city.

Just kidding this is Gavin Newsom's California last summer pic.twitter.com/cm2Oa98GEa
— TaraBull (@TaraBull) February 23, 2026

More destruction.

Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer." I guess that depends on the city, to be honest.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM

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1 Glad the border was closed.
Srsly

Posted by: Lizzy at February 23, 2026 03:41 PM (tj6OY)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 23, 2026 03:42 PM (dc44O)

3 On Rogan: 🚨 Special Forces Vet. Evan Hafer: “If we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not gonna understand what the fuck is going on... They are in for a world of ultra-violence they've never actually felt before.”

They' were pretty formidable when the enemy was women and children and they had the cops on their side.

Posted by: t-bird at February 23, 2026 03:42 PM (YmKky)

4 So many 'acts of love'

Posted by: 496 at February 23, 2026 03:42 PM (ncfGW)

5 Very puzzled

Posted by: Accomack at February 23, 2026 03:43 PM (/Chlc)

6 >>. . . and she has always insisted that they not be touched. Because she's on their payroll.

And she likes how her head is attached to her neck. Wouldn't want the cartels to sever that connection. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 23, 2026 03:43 PM (tj6OY)

7 4 So many 'acts of love'
Posted by: 496 at February 23, 2026 03:42 PM (ncfGW)

Sparks of divinity

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 03:44 PM (4eJXZ)

8 (The Mexican government) hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.

These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior.

We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.

The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.

Posted by: Texas Declaration of Independence 1836 at February 23, 2026 03:44 PM (fYhK6)

9 Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer." I guess that depends on the city, to be honest.
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I think the classify that as "healthcare".

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2026 03:45 PM (AlhUl)

10 The loonie goes further against the peso than against the USD. Hence Canadian travel to Mexico.

Visiting Canada’s foreign affairs website is always great fun. They advise Canadians that many states permit Americans to openly carry guns in public and that there is a “gun violence” problem here. And yet…

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 23, 2026 03:46 PM (fYhK6)

11 8, so basically nothing has changed in 200 years? shocking!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 23, 2026 03:46 PM (sTSBN)

12 Pretty difficult to figure out where the cartels end and the Mexican government begins....

Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2026 03:47 PM (YwEeS)

13 But. . . but. . . . but. . . . Vacationing in Meheeco is safe if you stay inside the compounds. . ..

*Are you even listening to yourselves?*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2026 03:47 PM (cYBz/)

14 I foresee a "buffer zone" inside Mexico.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2026 03:47 PM (jtM2q)

15 And this is why we need ICE to send these pendejos back to Mexico.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 23, 2026 03:48 PM (zuIfz)

16 A cartel thug dressing down a Mexican Marines Commander TO HIS FACE; that they could've hog-tied him and hanged him from a bridge but because the mayor is his friend he talked him out of it.
-- > on camera for all to see and know.

https://tinyurl.com/5hyyf7zc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2026 03:49 PM (rzTfK)

17 For the past year, Canada has officially been telling Canadians to avoid spending vacation money in the US. They were told to go to 'friendly' Mexico. Thousands are there now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2026 03:49 PM (0U5gm)

18 When asmongold was watching some of this, some of his commentors were saying this was trumps fault.

Can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 23, 2026 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

19 Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer."

They've been doing that since forever. I still recall that noise coming from a drunk Canadian tourist couple in Mazatlan.

In 1982.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 23, 2026 03:49 PM (/HDaX)

20 I am waiting to see what happens with Schienbaum. Per some analysts in the area, she is between a rock and a hard place, since the US is making charges at her over Fentanyl and human trafficking, and the left-wing of her own party is likely to dump her if she is too close to the US. Her security chief, Omar Garcia Harfuch seems to be onboard with the US involvement in the war against the Cartels and he seems to be directing things on the Mexican end

Schienbaum could have been given the same options as Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela: take our help to get out from under your cartels.

This might be why there was that "pizza alert" going on outside of the SOCOM headquarters, by the way.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (rbvCR)

21 Resisting the cartels is not lawful?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (OzWW4)

22 They drug terrorists retaliated by killing a mayor and setting Mexico ablaze.
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This is the problem with pinprick attacks and 'targeted killings'. If you leave anyone in the organization around to retaliate, they will. The only way to address the situation is to exterminate the cartels.

Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (vSvIl)

23 The president of Mexico was installed into office by the narcoterrorists. She is both an extreme leftist, an open borders (with the US) extremist, and a catspaw of the cartels.

I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further.

Posted by: Darth Donald at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (Riz8t)

24 Save USA first save TEXAS

Insanity, thousands of Muslims

We are a Christian nation, this must stop, send them back

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2026005894325276868?s=20

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM (nGraA)

25 "They should have just let the cartels continue to run rampant. This wouldn't be happening otherwise. Can I slit my grandchild's throat to help the cartels retake Mexican territory? I'll do it to help the poor Mexican babies suffering right now."
-Lib Boomer AWFL

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

26 After Killing of Top Narcoterrorist In Military Raid, Cartels Engage In Widespread Violence and Arson Across Mexico

Aka "Mostly Peaceful Protests"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM (9s47C)

27 I am waiting to see what happens with Schienbaum. Per some analysts in the area, she is between a rock and a hard place, since the US is making charges at her over Fentanyl and human trafficking, and the left-wing of her own party is likely to dump her if she is too close to the US. Her security chief, Omar Garcia Harfuch seems to be onboard with the US involvement in the war against the Cartels and he seems to be directing things on the Mexican end

Schienbaum could have been given the same options as Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela: take our help to get out from under your cartels.

If I were in her shoes, I think I'd seek asylum in the US, at least until the smoke clears.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

28 First Canada loses in women's hockey, then in men's hockey and now it's tourists in Mexico are in danger. Tough week for Canucks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM (/PQmQ)

29 "marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels"

Gotta love that little tidbit about pressure from Trump. As if foreign governments have no interest at all in rooting out criminal cartels, other than pressure from Trump. LOL.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 23, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

30 Much like as we say, the system is corruption, In Mexico, The Cartels are The Government.

And yes, if we decide to Let Slip The Dogs of War, The Cartels would be ground into dust within a couple of months.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (XV/Pl)

31 28 First Canada loses in women's hockey, then in men's hockey and now it's tourists in Mexico are in danger. Tough week for Canucks

eh burning Costcos in Mexico are still better than being in Canada

they're fine

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (j+aD2)

32 29 "marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels"

Gotta love that little tidbit about pressure from Trump. As if foreign governments have no interest at all in rooting out criminal cartels, other than pressure from Trump. LOL.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 23, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

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In the specific instance of Mexico:

It does not have incentive to crack down on cartels otherwise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

33 How soon will leftists put cartel flags in their X bios? Do cartels have flags?

Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (h/O4U)

34 Shinebaum should seek sanctuary in the U.S. Senate chambers welcomed by open arms and wallets. Only one arm Michelle, it'll do.

Posted by: kingsman at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (ehY6c)

35 ok so the cartels run Mexico

so who runs Snow Mexico? the Chinese?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (j+aD2)

36 "marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels"

Gotta love that little tidbit about pressure from Trump. As if foreign governments have no interest at all in rooting out criminal cartels, other than pressure from Trump. LOL.

With the rather naked implication that cracking down on drug cartels is a bad thing.

I suppose this will be the Dem's next 90/10 policy position.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (Riz8t)

37 Wait so Trump and the Mexican Army/Police did the op with some advice/information from US satellites and such. How is the Presidente woman not in the loop?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+)

38 “First, because it is outside the framework of the law."
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Chicks, apparently, don’t belong in government. They just don’t. Men, for their part, are shit left to their own devices, don’t misunderstand. But this is why.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (VmO84)

39 The cartel doesn't own any politicians or judges here though.

/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

40 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says using force against cartels violates their civil rights, and any talk of engaging in “war” with the cartels is a right-wing talking point fueled by “fascism.”

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (0U5gm)

41 17 For the past year, Canada has officially been telling Canadians to avoid spending vacation money in the US. They were told to go to 'friendly' Mexico. Thousands are there now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Largely until summer when they'll migrate back to the East Coast shore communities, mostly all in Democratic hands, and spent 3 solid months being pitas.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (NFX2v)

42 I saw a dumb hot take on the "male loneliness epidemic"

The argument was that men are lonely because of rigid gender norms and toxic masculinity.

So break this down then, the argument is that men are lonely in 2026 because in 2026 we have more rigid gender norms and a more traditional form of masculinity then we did historically.

Really? REALLY?

And this is a pattern I see with leftwing hot takes on every new problem. Things are worse now, you see, because we've moved right on cultural issues. Which is...insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

43 "21 Resisting the cartels is not lawful?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (OzWW4)"

so pretty much like it is in America, then ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (sTSBN)

44 We have 16 SF in MX on a training mission.

Leavitt says we only provided logistics.

umm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (rzTfK)

45 For ever there were rumors that now way would cartels jeopardize the tourist zones ! no way. I guess that is not true , huh.

Posted by: runner at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (/M/4v)

46 *forever

Posted by: runner at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (/M/4v)

47 35 ok so the cartels run Mexico

so who runs Snow Mexico? the Chinese?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (j+aD2)

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Reddit.

Canada is really just true believer socialists who don't understand how anything works and are importing India to make up for the fact that they don't have kids.

If any single country other than Canada runs Canada, it's India.

But it's just...dumb socialists who think that the worldwide union can topple American hegemony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

48 Shinebaum doesn't sound Mexican.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 03:56 PM (OzWW4)

49 ok so the cartels run Mexico

so who runs Snow Mexico? the Chinese?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (j+aD2)

Nah, most of it is some UK / EU globalist type "dictator" ruling the place now. Their only cartel is maple syrup and dairy products.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 03:56 PM (8avO+)

50 what does Mencho mean?

Posted by: Gavin's word wallah at February 23, 2026 03:56 PM (uaLwQ)

51 With so much evil running amok in the world, sometimes it feels like we are approaching the end times.

Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

52 And yes, if we decide to Let Slip The Dogs of War, The Cartels would be ground into dust within a couple of months.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (XV/Pl)
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It's a lot like Venezuela.

The cartels have absolutely NO CONCEPTION of the world of hurt the United States military can bring to bear when they are determined to bring the pain.

Properly wielded, the United States military is simply the strongest, most powerful force of destruction the world has ever seen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (ESVrU)

53 How many weapons in the cartel’s arsenal got there by way of Ukraine?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (u73oe)

54 > Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer."
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Don't Canadians also frequent Cuba?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (jtM2q)

55 I tried to translate Mencho yesterday and failed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (OzWW4)

56 what does Mencho mean?
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Twenty pesos. Same as in Tijuana.

Posted by: It's the going rate at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (2Ez/1)

57 As if foreign governments have no interest at all in rooting out criminal cartels, other than pressure from Trump. LOL.

Well, in this case...

Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (Fs0KI)

58 53 How many weapons in the cartel’s arsenal got there by way of Ukraine?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (u73oe)

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Eric Holder can probably tell you the exact number he got into their hands through Fast and Furious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

59 Over a decade ago I told my dim-witted co-worker, marrying her bro-in-law! (both divorced and she was proud to only date that family! I can only imagine those Thanksgiving meals), not to go to Mexico on her honeymoon. She went anyway. Also believes, in spite if me, that purses sold on NYC streets are real! I could write a novel about the stupidiy surrounding me in this job. She said it was safe at the resort, guarded by men with guns. Ok!

I went to Mexico twice: once in college on spring break (Kino Bay, with two fellow nursing classmates and their brothers). Had a blast. Had enough sense not to drink the water or hang out with the people outside the condo.

In 1981 we went briefly over the border to Tijuana with our toddler son and a friend of my husband's from San Diego. I know Tijuana is not the best place to introduce anyone to Mexico, my dude said never again. Our blonde son would frequently be mobbed by people wanting to touch his hair. The taxi also did not have brakes, to add to the adventure.

While I am sure Mexico is beautiful, based on my college trip, I would not take the chance now and be stuck there as some Americans are.

The president of Mexico is a fool.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (WONhk)

60 Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sara Carter, said: "President Trump has been clear. The days of the cartels are numbered. They ran out. I have made it clear myself. President Sheinbaum knows this.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2026 03:58 PM (rzTfK)

61 Chicks, apparently, don’t belong in government. They just don’t. Men, for their part, are shit left to their own devices, don’t misunderstand. But this is why.

Women in power often turn to Toddler Ethics:
• Share
• Don't hit anyone
• Don't say mean things.

Sometimes, its necessary to kill them all, take all of their stuff then trash talk them at their funerals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 03:58 PM (9s47C)

62 according to google:

El Mencho meaning
Born as Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes later took the name Nemesio, reportedly in honour of his godfather, whose identity remains unknown. His name was eventually shortened to the alias “El Mencho", a nickname that has no clearly defined meaning and does not have a direct translation.

Oh.

Posted by: Gavin's word wallah at February 23, 2026 03:58 PM (uaLwQ)

63 Know who else's name didn't sound Mexican?

Posted by: Shifty eyes at February 23, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1)

64 Sheinbaum would not be president of Mexico if the Cartels did not want her to be.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

65 Just got off the phone with my aunt that is down in Guadalajara. Aunt and Uncle have been down there at their compound for over a month. Supposed to be a big family gathering(Mexican side) the day this shit touched off down there. Needless to say nobody showed up. They're safe at their place but my aunt said the streets are empty, no traffic, and the only people out n about are standing in lines at the grocery stores getting food then hauling ass back home on foot.

Posted by: Alpha Centaurian at February 23, 2026 03:59 PM (IlL6s)

66 50 what does Mencho mean?
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Squeeze my ballz.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 23, 2026 03:59 PM (pZ64F)

67 Much like as we say, the system is corruption, In Mexico, The Cartels are The Government.

And yes, if we decide to Let Slip The Dogs of War, The Cartels would be ground into dust within a couple of months.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2026 03:53 PM (XV/Pl)

These incidents seem to be in the cartels own areas. Bombs and stuff going off there seems an own goal, or the police are still on the offensive.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 03:59 PM (8avO+)

68 we go to Mexico a lot but usually Yucatan-ish area. you see cartel guys but they're on vacation with their many children and lovely wives

I really think Mexico has a ton of potential and deeply hope they can get it together. I like em.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (j+aD2)

69 Her security chief, Omar Garcia Harfuch seems to be onboard with the US involvement in the war against the Cartels and he seems to be directing things on the Mexican end
Posted by: Kindltot

"Omar Hardfuck" is a great name for a security chief.

Or a pr0n actor.

Posted by: mikeski at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (QzLEO)

70 Know who else's name didn't sound Mexican?

Hernando Cortez?

Posted by: Moctezuma at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

71 what does Mencho mean?
Posted by: Gavin's word wallah at February 23, 2026 03:56 PM (uaLwQ)

The teen boy band?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (wVcYX)

72 Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer."

So the Canadian Officials are offshoring MAID on their ~~citizens~~ subjects.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (nAS9C)

73 This is the problem with pinprick attacks and 'targeted killings'. If you leave anyone in the organization around to retaliate, they will. The only way to address the situation is to exterminate the cartels.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (vSvIl)

Carpet bombing Guanajuato or Puerta Vallarta was not an option. The cartel is playing Antifa Day of Rage right now, and I wonder how much ammo they have stored up and if they can get resupply.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (rbvCR)

74 Sombrero Somalia on the southern border.

Posted by: Decaf at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (OP9Gm)

75 This is exactly the result Shienbaum wanted. The same way Walz wanted ICE shooting people. The plan to overwhelm Trump is taking shape. The phrase I am looking out for is “death throes”.

Posted by: Accomack at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (GbONR)

76 Could be as much in fighting as trying to stable the control of the area

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

77 Our blonde son would frequently be mobbed by people wanting to touch his hair.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

They'd never seen blond hair before?

Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

78 We need to seal the border with mexico and shut down everything coming across the border until they can come to the negotiation table as non narco trafficking adults.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (0N4FZ)

79 This situation with the cartels reminds me of the north coast of Africa, Algiers to Morocco basically, for around 300 years. For centuries, Muslims raided from there to take slaves from everyone, including each other, but as far north as Ireland. Everyone in Europe and Mediterranean had the same reaction: someone has to stop this.

But for centuries, there was always something else to do and something intervened and well, to be honest, some people in Europe were getting rich off this slave trading and didn't really want it to stop. People with a lot of power and money.

So while everyone knew something had to be done, nothing was done until the mid 19th century when finally a coalition of basically everyone got together and stomped a mud hole into the entire area and they were silent and cowering for about 100 years.

That's how I see this Mexico and South America situation with the drugs. Someone is finally doing something about it, after a long time of going "someone ought to do something".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (PYyV9)

80 58 53 How many weapons in the cartel’s arsenal got there by way of Ukraine?

Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Clip on X from MX with a Cartelesto sporting an IMI weapon. The caption read something like - It's the Jew's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (rzTfK)

81 Mencho was into cock fighting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (OzWW4)

82 Chicks, apparently, don’t belong in government. They just don’t. Men, for their part, are shit left to their own devices, don’t misunderstand. But this is why.

Women in power often turn to Toddler Ethics:
• Share
• Don't hit anyone
• Don't say mean things.

Sometimes, its necessary to kill them all, take all of their stuff then trash talk them at their funerals.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 03:58 PM (9s47C)

you forgot "I showed up at the international summit and the Premier of Switzerland looked cuter in the same dress I wore, so it is time for all out war"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+)

83 Mexico invented horses!
- AOCortez

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (n5tGW)

84 76 Could be as much in fighting as trying to stable the control of the area
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

I'm guessing rival cartels vying for control

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (4eJXZ)

85 so who runs Snow Mexico? the Chinese?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (j+aD2)

WEF and the British

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR)

86 And this is a pattern I see with leftwing hot takes on every new problem. Things are worse now, you see, because we've moved right on cultural issues. Which is...insane.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

They don't need everyone to believe their bullshit. It's better for them if everyone doesn't. Get a handful a people to buy their nonsense completely, though, and then when they see the rest of the world carrying on in spite of this new found Secret Knowledge, they'll become convinced of just how deep everything goes. They're all in on it, maaaan. We've got to do something drastic. Asymmetrical warfare is all we got. Etc etc.

It's a cult. They're everything they accuse Trump supporters of being, except worse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (Vq1pX)

87 Mexico is north of the equator.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (OzWW4)

88 86
It's a cult. They're everything they accuse Trump supporters of being, except worse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (Vq1pX)

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If they became a suicide cult, I'm not sure I'd mind that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

89 This should cause a warning and modification from FIFA to immediately cancel the World Cup in Mexico. No chance to fix it.

If they haven't canceled the World Cup in the United States with the current situation, I doubt they'll do it in Mexico.

The US caused this. The Jalisco cartel is the cartel that is owned by the CIA. unfortunately my compatriots aren´t seeing the big picture yet.

Suddenly, after all this time they get the leader. Really? Out of the blue, after all this time. Today, this week, really?
Release all the files. Stop trying to distract.

Seems like the same chaos the US CIA has done to other countries. These cartel have American military guns, armored vehicles, anti air and drone weapons. I wonder who sold it to them?

This is not about destroying cartels, this is about taking them over. Despite her rhetoric president Claudia Sheinbaum is a you know who's asset.

Glad we are bombing Venezuelan ships because there clearly isn’t a cartel problem in Mexico….

If only Americans wouldn’t be such drug freaks, there would be no demand for drugs and there would be no drug cartels.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (JCZqz)

90 so who runs Snow Mexico? the Chinese?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (j+aD2)

WEF and the British
Posted by: Kindltot

The City of London!

Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

91 Darwin dictates that when Democrats declare open hunting season on Republicans, and average normies start fighting back against the evil, it won't be leaders like the Newsom's or AOC's doing the dying. Like with Kyle Rittenhouse, it'll be the idiot Antifa tools, the pedo teachers, the golf course artists and the AWFL blue hairs. That's pretty sad, because they are just ignorant puppets.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (MZ6Is)

92
So much material for candidate Vance's Superbowl commercial in 2028... how to choose?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (Nh98F)

93 OT

https://twitter.com/i/status/2025744886369251750

3 min. Hang in to the end, sound improves as he gets worked up, and he ends with "Ancient Australian proverb: fuck off we're full!"

Australian nationalist activist Thomas Sewell has blasted the corporate media in a fiery interview

Mr Sewell, 32, appeared at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday charged with “offensive behaviour” over the October 2024 rally where he and a group of about 30 then-National Socialist Network activists held a banner saying “fuck off, we’re full”

He looks like a bona fide neo nazi, but I gotta say, this should not surprise -- the Left has resurrected communism as their stated goal while painting the nazis as their main enemy. Nationalists are now claiming that banner mostly because they are against the internationalist anti-free market, anti-white bolshies.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (uaLwQ)

94 So while everyone knew something had to be done, nothing was done until the mid 19th century when finally a coalition of basically everyone got together and stomped a mud hole into the entire area and they were silent and cowering for about 100 years.

That's how I see this Mexico and South America situation with the drugs. Someone is finally doing something about it, after a long time of going "someone ought to do something".
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (PYyV9)

you spelled "the US Marines" wrong. Its right there in the Anthem - the Shores of Tripoli. We got tired of our ships being hit so we sent some marines and the navy to shell the area and teach them a lesson. Then they left us alone.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (8avO+)

95 75 This is exactly the result Shienbaum wanted. The same way Walz wanted ICE shooting people. The plan to overwhelm Trump is taking shape. The phrase I am looking out for is “death throes”.
Posted by: Accomack

"The plan to overwhelm Trump is taking shape."

Absolutely.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (NFX2v)

96 It seems the leaner beef requires more cooking.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (OzWW4)

97 89
Seems like the same chaos the US CIA has done to other countries. These cartel have American military guns, armored vehicles, anti air and drone weapons. I wonder who sold it to them?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (JCZqz)

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Can I tell them about Operation Fast and Furious and which president it happened under?

Can I? Please?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

98 With so much evil running amok in the world, sometimes it feels like we are approaching the end times.

Watch Matt Walsh's video on slavery.

In comparison, this is a Golden Age of Humanity.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (nAS9C)

99 Mexico:

Come for the sun and beautiful beaches,

stay because your under a "shelter in Place" order with Cartel members randomly burning cars and shooting people!

Posted by: WisRich at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (G0vdT)

100 37 Wait so Trump and the Mexican Army/Police did the op with some advice/information from US satellites and such. How is the Presidente woman not in the loop?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 03:54 PM (8avO+)

"I see....NOTHING! I know......NOTHING!"

- Claudia Shienbaum Shultz

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (LxER7)

101 “Stop swattin’ flies and go after the Manure pile”.

Posted by: zombie Curtis LeMay at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (VmO84)

102 45 For ever there were rumors that now way would cartels jeopardize the tourist zones ! no way. I guess that is not true , huh.
Posted by: runner at February 23, 2026 03:55 PM

I know someone that was kidnapped from a Cancun nightclub while on vacation and his wife had to pay money to get him back. This was 20 years ago and I won't go there.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (K885Z)

103 Darwin dictates that when Democrats declare open hunting season on Republicans, and average normies start fighting back against the evil, it won't be leaders like the Newsom's or AOC's doing the dying. Like with Kyle Rittenhouse, it'll be the idiot Antifa tools, the pedo teachers, the golf course artists and the AWFL blue hairs. That's pretty sad, because they are just ignorant puppets.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (MZ6Is)

America is not supposed to have ignorant puppets, but citizens doing productive things.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (8avO+)

104 Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer." I guess that depends on the city, to be honest.

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Now that Cuba, their other communist holiday destination, is unliveable they need some other hellhole to visit. Somalia is too far.

Posted by: Decaf at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (OP9Gm)

105 98 With so much evil running amok in the world, sometimes it feels like we are approaching the end times.

Watch Matt Walsh's video on slavery.

In comparison, this is a Golden Age of Humanity.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:04 PM (nAS9C)

======

I remember when Hurricane Katrina was a sign of the end times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

106 El Mencho, El Guapo, what's the diff?

Amigos, we ride!

Posted by: Ned Nederlander at February 23, 2026 04:06 PM (wVcYX)

107 Mexico is a failed state like New York, Illinois and California.

I point and laugh.

Posted by: Dr.Gurgles at February 23, 2026 04:06 PM (TmfuF)

108 Sheinbaum? Dude calling himself a Mensch-o? Anyone ever see this guy wearing a tiny little sombrero pinned to the crown of his head? Hmmmm?

I'm just pregunta-ing preguntas....

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at February 23, 2026 04:06 PM (Vq1pX)

109 These cartel have American military guns, armored vehicles, anti air and drone weapons. I wonder who sold it to them?

Obama.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (n5tGW)

110 I know someone that was kidnapped from a Cancun nightclub while on vacation and his wife had to pay money to get him back. This was 20 years ago and I won't go there.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (K885Z)

Yep! That was the honeymoon spot for the idiot co-worker!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (WONhk)

111 Seems the strategery is to divide and conquer the cartels. Once one goes down the others will fight for the available markets. Then the squeeze play between Mexican nationalists and American forces can pick them off and cut them off from resupply. Seems like it would work. Most Mexicans are tired of the stupid.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (pZ64F)

112 103 Darwin dictates that when Democrats declare open hunting season on Republicans, and average normies start fighting back against the evil, it won't be leaders like the Newsom's or AOC's doing the dying. Like with Kyle Rittenhouse, it'll be the idiot Antifa tools, the pedo teachers, the golf course artists and the AWFL blue hairs. That's pretty sad, because they are just ignorant puppets.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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In that case, if the Team Blue loses, their leaders will have to flee abroad like the Loyalists did after the American Revolution.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

113 108 Sheinbaum? Dude calling himself a Mensch-o? Anyone ever see this guy wearing a tiny little sombrero pinned to the crown of his head? Hmmmm?

I'm just pregunta-ing preguntas....

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at February 23, 2026 04:06 PM (Vq1pX)

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"I never said any of that."
-Tucker, three days later

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

114 I don't much like foreign expeditionary wars, but we should have probably invaded Mexico a long time ago.

The Mexican people are mostly lovely and I do enjoy tequila, but having a quasi-failed state run by narcoterrorists immediately to our South is sub-optimal, to say the least.

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (5aZAZ)

115
I remember when Hurricane Katrina was a sign of the end times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

Y2K, Trump's election 2016,2024

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (4eJXZ)

116 Jalisco Next Generation. Does that mean they are all gay.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 04:08 PM (OzWW4)

117 El Mensho es El NoMo

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 23, 2026 04:08 PM (n5tGW)

118 I wonder if there is a baseball game on

Posted by: Accomack at February 23, 2026 04:08 PM (GbONR)

119 62 “El Mencho", a nickname that has no clearly defined meaning and does not have a direct translation.

--

It loosely translates to "Shelvy"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (0bjKf)

120 The Chinese are supplying the cartels with fentanyl( or at least the chemicals to make it) . They are also using weapons the US has sent....to Ukraine.

Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (YwEeS)

121 106 El Mencho, El Guapo, what's the diff?

Amigos, we ride!
Posted by: Ned Nederlander at February 23, 2026 04:06 PM (wVcYX)
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Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of violent gang members?

Posted by: WisRich at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (G0vdT)

122 you spelled "the US Marines" wrong. Its right there in the Anthem - the Shores of Tripoli. We got tired of our ships being hit so we sent some marines and the navy to shell the area and teach them a lesson. Then they left us alone.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (8avO+)
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Huh. I just remembered that the very first words of that anthem are: "From the Halls of Montezuma," which commemorates the Battle of Chapultepec, where Marines stormed Mexico City in 1847...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (ESVrU)

123 We need to seal the border with mexico and shut down everything coming across the border until they can come to the negotiation table as non narco trafficking adults.

So we need to hoard tequila and avocados?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (nAS9C)

124 Obama.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (n5tGW)

It's not difficult to believe that "fast and furious" debacle was wayyyyyy more than a couple handguns and rifles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (Vq1pX)

125 El Mencho should be a Jewish tailor who tells you how great you look in that suit.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (wGerL)

126 3 On Rogan: 🚨 Special Forces Vet. Evan Hafer: “If we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not gonna understand what the fuck is going on... They are in for a world of ultra-violence they've never actually felt before.”

They' were pretty formidable when the enemy was women and children and they had the cops on their side.
Posted by: t-bird at February 23, 2026 03:42 PM (YmKky)

We have troops all over the Mid East doing COIN Ops...

I'm pretty isolationist... but I'd MUCH rather see those troops Occupying Mexico, then some African or Mid East shit hole.

Hell, bring em back from the EU too!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (mP0Kj)

127 76 Could be as much in fighting as trying to stable the control of the area
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

I'm guessing rival cartels vying for control
Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (4eJXZ)
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I'm betting that's a large part of it. And I don't discount the various commanders in the CJNG vying over parts of the cartel for their own gain.

Posted by: mrp at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (rj6Yv)

128 I remember when Hurricane Katrina was a sign of the end times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

Y2K, Trump's election 2016,2024

Net Neutrality

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (9s47C)

129 124 Obama.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (n5tGW)

It's not difficult to believe that "fast and furious" debacle was wayyyyyy more than a couple handguns and rifles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (Vq1pX)

========

It was designed to kill Americans with the long term object of convincing the American people of repealing the 2nd Amendment.

"We'll go small," was probably not on the cards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

130 Seems like it would work. Most Mexicans are tired of the stupid.
Posted by: pudinhead
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Yes and no, almost everyone from Mexico knows someone or is someone who works for the cartel at least part of the time. Estimates are 1 in 10 Mexicans do so high likelihood of family members, friends, and acquaintances being involved at one level of operations or another. Money laundering through legitimate enterprises is one the big ones causing many to have cartel contacts.

You can remove the top leadership fairly easily but removing the ingrained corrupted institutions like the police, courts, businesses, politicians, etc. is the work of decades to fix. Mexico took 40-45 years to get to this point and fixing it is likely to take about as long.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (E4rtv)

131 This is the problem with pinprick attacks and 'targeted killings'. If you leave anyone in the organization around to retaliate, they will. The only way to address the situation is to exterminate the cartels.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2026 03:50 PM (vSvIl)

Carpet bombing Guanajuato or Puerta Vallarta was not an option. The cartel is playing Antifa Day of Rage right now, and I wonder how much ammo they have stored up and if they can get resupply.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 04:00 PM (rbvCR)

Nobody carpet bombs anymore. Planes and drones and missiles and artillery can drop a shell through a window frame anywhere within range. Or farther, planes and helis in Ukraine intentionally pitch up on their tails a bit as they fire to get more distance at need.

Oh not the cartels, just modern militaries.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (8avO+)

132 It seems the leaner beef requires more cooking.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Grill it longer for better shoe leather!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2026 04:11 PM (lpVer)

133 Mexico has a long, long history of being ruled by criminal gangs

Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2026 04:11 PM (YwEeS)

134 Just texted with a friend who is stuck in a hotel in Puerto Vallarta. They had this trip planned for months, just great timing. He said yesterday was pretty bad. He counted nearly 30 fires burning, including one just down the street from his hotel. Today is quieter. The lock down is supposed to last until Wednesday and he is hoping to fly out on Thursday. On the bright side he has a couple bottles of tequila and a rooftop pool.

Posted by: Indiana Lurker at February 23, 2026 04:12 PM (3ZVqj)

135 I have a personal connection to Mexico now, so I hope and pray that this conflict is resolved quickly and with minimum loss. /\

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 23, 2026 04:12 PM (DgMqy)

136 We have troops all over the Mid East doing COIN Ops...

I'm pretty isolationist... but I'd MUCH rather see those troops Occupying Mexico, then some African or Mid East shit hole.

Hell, bring em back from the EU too!
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (mP0Kj)

Don't forget in the Sahara in Africa.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:12 PM (8avO+)

137 The Cartels don't just own the Mexican Government; they clearly also own the Democrat Party in the US. It's why the Dems have adopted all these bonkers positions regarding illegal aliens, the border, and drugs. Once you realize that the Dems' real clients are the Cartels, all of their "crazy" positions appear to be quite rational. In fact, they are dictated to the Dems by the Cartels.

If you disagree with me, ask yourself why the Cartels' influence of politicians would stop at the border, especially when so much of their revenue comes from the US?

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 23, 2026 04:12 PM (qUkBO)

138 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2026 04:03 PM (JCZqz)
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Fun game:

Pick which of these comments is made by an actual person with actual opinions and not a paid-for anti-American troll/shill account.

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:12 PM (5aZAZ)

139 My lib dad is in Mexico. If he needs ransom money he is out of luck.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 23, 2026 04:13 PM (cS1cw)

140
I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:13 PM (Nh98F)

141 I don't much like foreign expeditionary wars, but we should have probably invaded Mexico a long time ago.

The Mexican people are mostly lovely and I do enjoy tequila, but having a quasi-failed state run by narcoterrorists immediately to our South is sub-optimal, to say the least.

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM (5aZAZ)

yeah that is what the NORTH border is for.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

142 There have already been clashes between cartels and US forces of various kinds.

It never, ever ends well for the cartel.

They do not want this to flash over into "Uncle Sam needs you to Find Out now" territory. Especially when it's Oh-Fuck-Thirty and everything we got is steaming over to the Gulf again. We don't have time to fuck with these drug dealing idiots. They'll get folded judiciously in record time without even the courtesy of a burial.

Now is not the time to need to Find Out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2026 04:14 PM (Vq1pX)

143 64 Sheinbaum would not be president of Mexico if the Cartels did not want her to be.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2026 03:59

As is evident by the fact she is still alive. She is not in charge, which I know may be disappointing to Team Misogyny.

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:14 PM (OoFl2)

144 Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer." I guess that depends on the city, to be honest.

MAID Travel - The Trip of a Lifetime

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 23, 2026 04:14 PM (ejrtR)

145 91 Darwin dictates that when Democrats declare open hunting season on Republicans, and average normies start fighting back against the evil, it won't be leaders like the Newsom's or AOC's doing the dying.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

True in part but the average normies would probably have to get through police for even the 1st line devils.

Really don't see the possibility, particularly it in coastal areas. The normies have been rule abiders.

If winning doesn't come through voting, 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 23, 2026 04:14 PM (NFX2v)

146 They'd never seen blond hair before?
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

I'm sure they had,but he was super cute with white blonde hair. I am telling you this is what they did in the marketplace.

In our hotel in San Diego he'd say hola amigo to the waiters...and they touched his head as well. He was a very articulate baby boy of 2yrs old.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 23, 2026 04:15 PM (WONhk)

147 I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:13 PM (Nh98F)

Yeah, good question. Wonder if they told her some tainted info to localize him for the strike?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:15 PM (8avO+)

148 When major cartel players are murdered, it's usually because a rival cartel wanted him dead. Even if it's the government that did the killing.

A government (or quasi-government) paramilitary group took the death shots against Pablo Escobar, but that was only after months of rival cartels ratting him out, threatening and killing some of his henchmen, etc. There may even be some controversy as to exactly who it was that killed him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 23, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

149 "So many 'acts of love' -- Sparks of divinity"

More evidence why adam was created "in the image of God (with holy spirit), but not all body soul (carnal) humans are made "in the image of God".

My old Lutheran church's current pastor spoke at a funeral, saying "all men are 'sparks of the divine' ", even the evil ones apparently. It's a beautiful stone structure, but the church (ekklesia) itself is dead there.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2026 04:16 PM (vbXSk)

150 Schienbaum could have been given the same options as Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela: take our help to get out from under your cartels.

If I were in her shoes, I think I'd seek asylum in the US, at least until the smoke clears.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

I'd be in favor of it, providing she be compelled to have her name legally changed to "Shinebox"

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 23, 2026 04:16 PM (nbLIj)

151 I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Frendly fire incident.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2026 04:16 PM (lpVer)

152 I'd like to point out the lady presidente of Mexico has giant pointy ears.

Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2026 04:17 PM (godi3)

153 When asmongold was watching some of this, some of his commentors were saying this was trumps fault.

Can't fix stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 23, 2026 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

They're not wrong. None of this would be happening if Trump would just let criminals run the world, poison Americans, and prepare for the US to be conquered.

Plus, the price of drugs and underage flesh has gone up, man, it's awful.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 23, 2026 04:17 PM (ExV1e)

154 Urban Canadians are largely retarded, with a wildly inflated sense of self-importance and who would gladly cut off their nose to spite their face.

Let those fucking clowns to go to Mexico and Cuba because Orange Man Bad and because a lot of us law-abiding citizens have guns. You can't fix stupid.

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:17 PM (5aZAZ)

155 Mexican flag: red green and white. Three legs of modern terror: commies, muzzies and drugs

Posted by: Accomack at February 23, 2026 04:17 PM (T8bqm)

156 "disappointing to Team Misogyny."

She should do the honorable thing.

Posted by: Ghost of Tom Lantos at February 23, 2026 04:18 PM (cS1cw)

157 The Mexican drug cartel known as CJNG—one of the most ruthless criminal enterprises in the world—saw its profits explode from 2021-2025, with drug and human trafficking supercharged by Biden’s open-border policies.

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Unexpectedly.

Did The Big Guy get more than 10%?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 23, 2026 04:18 PM (bnb+L)

158 151 I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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You don't tell her.

The drug lords have "human rights."

lol, they are not even close to being human.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2026 04:18 PM (aZm/F)

159 I have spent time in the Congo. I never even considered going to Mexico. Although, a friend of mine tells me whenever things get a bit shady in Mexico, always make your way to one of the Chinese owned manufacturing plants. They (quite illegally) have People’s Liberation Army (PLA), People’s Armed Police (PAP) doing their location security, and are fully armed.

In hindsight, avoid both places and travel to Bora Bora.

Posted by: Orson at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (dIske)

160 I don't much like foreign expeditionary wars, but we should have probably invaded Mexico a long time ago.

The Mexican people are mostly lovely and I do enjoy tequila, but having a quasi-failed state run by narcoterrorists immediately to our South is sub-optimal, to say the least.

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:07 PM

There is a failed narco state on our southern border because our country consumes more illegal drugs than almost the rest of the world combined.

Until that is addressed nothing is going to change. And no I have zero ideas how to change that, but nothing will change until we stop the illegal drug market in our country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (0N4FZ)

161 The Mexican female president might as well tattoo
FEAR on her forehead.

Not that I blame her, considering all the female Mexican mayors who die within weeks of election.

But to state "human rights" for cartels is beyond absurd. Lady, they are inhuman.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (WONhk)

162 59 Over a decade ago I told my dim-witted co-worker, marrying her bro-in-law! (both divorced and she was proud to only date that family! I can only imagine those Thanksgiving meals), not to go to Mexico on her honeymoon. She went anyway.
____

Honeymoon? Should have gone to Communist China.

Posted by: Timmy Walz at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (Dv3i1)

163 Blonde Morticia, there are several cartels. Sheinbaum is property of one of the others like Sinaloa.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (+nEug)

164 140
I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:13 PM (Nh98F)
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Because she saw what happened to her homeboy in Venezuela and decided that she doesn't want that smoke?

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (5aZAZ)

165 So Dems come out in support of the narco-terrorists yet?

Posted by: Ripley at February 23, 2026 04:20 PM (GUOwU)

166 You don't tell her.

The drug lords have "human rights."

lol, they are not even close to being human.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2026 04:18 PM (aZm/F)

Sounds like here with the illegals.. Dems and their "judges" always claim that even after they have been given deportation orders...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 04:20 PM (4eJXZ)

167 Could be as much in fighting as trying to stable the control of the area
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

I'm guessing rival cartels vying for control
Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 04:02 PM (4eJXZ)
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I'm betting that's a large part of it. And I don't discount the various commanders in the CJNG vying over parts of the cartel for their own gain.
Posted by: mrp at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (rj6Yv)

The efficient way is to pop the big boss, let them fight for control. When it cools down use the intel to pop another boss or three, rinse and repeat.

all their munitions get drained in the process.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

168 It's not difficult to believe that "fast and furious" debacle was wayyyyyy more than a couple handguns and rifles.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2026 04:09 PM (Vq1pX)

It was to help the Sinaloa Cartel defeat Los Zetas Cartel, because the Zetas, among other things, were stealing oil from the Pemex pipelines.
Also the Sinaloa Cartel was probably a major drug pipeline of its own and was profiting certain people.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 04:20 PM (rbvCR)

169 Gotta say, the Cartel Queens are always hotter in the movies.
Then again, so are the teachers, nurses, and lesbians.

Posted by: Wally at February 23, 2026 04:20 PM (0e5Te)

170 You don't tell her.

The drug lords have "human rights."

lol, they are not even close to being human.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2026 04:18 PM (aZm/F)

Sounds like here with the illegals.. Dems and their "judges" always claim that even after they have been given deportation orders...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2026 04:20 PM (4eJXZ)

Cartel victims, on the other hand have no human rights. Such Empathy.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:21 PM (8avO+)

171 If you disagree with me, ask yourself why the Cartels' influence of politicians would stop at the border, especially when so much of their revenue comes from the US?
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 23, 2026 04:12 PM (qUkBO)

I'd luv to have someone in the Fed Gov do a DEEP dive on who funded the last couple of Arizona elections.

Funny how the Border Hawk got stomped.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

172 You know how you can tell the Mexican President is an idiot?

By what she says. And, of course, she's run by the cartels.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2026 04:21 PM (aZm/F)

173 >>>The cartel is playing Antifa Day of Rage right now, and I wonder how much ammo they have stored up and if they can get resupply.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Probably up to the Chinese.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 23, 2026 04:21 PM (rzTfK)

174 The Mexican revolution from 1910 - 20 was a nasty war. Over 2m died and it was a mess where people switched sides every other month. If Mexico implodes we'll be lucky that Trump is president because if the Dems were in charge the border would be overrun 5x as bad as it was under Biden

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2026 04:21 PM (/PQmQ)

175 @130 whig-you are absolutely right. Especially the money laundering. I'm the one who posted at 65(Alpha Centaurian) above, forgot to change my nic. The Mexican side of my family can tell you all about it. Between what you mention and the citizens of Mexico with money are as socialist as any here or abroad. They're not a bunch of people waiting to have a free market form of republican government down there by any stretch.
Hope you are doing well and recovering from your surgery.

Posted by: JROD at February 23, 2026 04:22 PM (IlL6s)

176 I hate this for MX, there are / were great areas. Mexico City is really very pretty. Tijuana is a scary place, but it wasn’t always. Going to the Mercado there used to be a big nothing. Aguascalientes is beautiful. Monterrey is very cosmopolitan, in Nuevo León. There is zero reason for Mexico to be how it is - it could be USA 2.0 but for the cartels.

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:22 PM (OoFl2)

177 I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:13 PM (Nh98F)
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Because she saw what happened to her homeboy in Venezuela and decided that she doesn't want that smoke?
Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:19 PM (5aZAZ)

Then why give the speech calling out war on the cartels as a bad thing? When you betray, betray all the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:22 PM (8avO+)

178 I have been shaking my head at the "It's not so bad as long as you stay in the resort!" crowd for what, two decades now? Why vacation somewhere and be confined to a small area? When Pooky was stationed in Texas, no military were allowed to go to Mexico.

Posted by: pookysgirl has no Hispanic blood at February 23, 2026 04:23 PM (Wt5PA)

179 Until that is addressed nothing is going to change. And no I have zero ideas how to change that, but nothing will change until we stop the illegal drug market in our country.

Give away all the drugs the druggies want for free in every blue city in America.

Takes away the profit and allows the blue run cities to flourish with their kinda people.

Posted by: It's Free! at February 23, 2026 04:23 PM (TmfuF)

180 >>I'm pretty isolationist... but I'd MUCH rather see those troops Occupying Mexico, then some African or Mid East shit hole.

What makes you believe we’re not there?

Sheinbaum had a choice. Either we take him out, or you do with our assistance. And rest assured, we didn’t send a second string. An ODA was involved.

What people fail to understand is there is an increasingly blurry line between the cartels and terrorist groups. CJNG, in particular, has been gaining weapons of increased sophistication including, if rumor is to be believed, Chinese and Iranian MANPADS. That’s in addition to RPG’s and the alphabet of automatic and crew served weapons.

There is no way we are going to, nor should we stand for terrorist groups on our border to continue asymmetric operations with sophisticated weaponry.

And we’re not.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2026 04:23 PM (9I5W+)

181 I hate this for MX, there are / were great areas. Mexico City is really very pretty. Tijuana is a scary place, but it wasn’t always. Going to the Mercado there used to be a big nothing. Aguascalientes is beautiful. Monterrey is very cosmopolitan, in Nuevo León. There is zero reason for Mexico to be how it is - it could be USA 2.0 but for the cartels.
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:22 PM (OoFl2)

A big inheritance of misrule from the Spanish colonial era and French 'intervention' era hasn't helped but even the former banana republic area seems more stable these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:24 PM (8avO+)

182 Our Communist Enemies to the North are promoting travel to Mexico over travel to America, calling Mexico "safer." I guess that depends on the city, to be honest.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM

At least the fentynal is cheaper there.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23, 2026 04:24 PM (4NO2D)

183 "Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework of the law."

Do you feel 'in charge', Claudia?

Posted by: Bane at February 23, 2026 04:25 PM (4NO2D)

184 The Mexican revolution from 1910 - 20 was a nasty war. Over 2m died and it was a mess where people switched sides every other month.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Hey, maybe you guys should channel that violence in another direction. Wouldn't you like to get the US Southwest back?
-- Arthur Zimmermann

Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

185 I don't get it. If Sheinbaum is a cartel moll, how is it that the federales killed El Mencho?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:13 PM (Nh98F)

It is not an either or situation. It is most likely a political power situation with Schienbaum trying to balance out the various power blocks that want their way or her death.
The difference here is that Trump really wants to get rid of the Cartels and their opium war against the US, and is happy if Schienbaum would spearhead the Mexican end of things in return for his support.
She may not be up to the task, since there are a lot of player who have their own needs that can't be allowed to override the main goal of surviving.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (rbvCR)

186 I'm all for the best of our best sneaking into Mexico and sniping, blowing up, sudden heart attacking, drowning, or whatever fits-- the cartel leadership and staunchest, most insane followers.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (aZm/F)

187 I'm just now hearing 25 military personnel have been killed. Seems like a lot ...

And some guy says the cartels also run the beach resorts, with the good guys having been chased out.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (vbXSk)

188 Screw mexico.
Awe.finish the border then invade and seize the Yucatan... Which sits in a shiitload of oil. Let the rest of mexico whither on the vine.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (2WIwB)

189 Canadian bureaucrat; you want MAID? Here's a plane ticket to Puerto Vallarta

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (/PQmQ)

190 ask yourself why the Cartels' influence of politicians would stop at the border

= =

It doesn't. My neighbor bought their million dollar house for cash without a realtor and they don't speak a word of english. Every night a delivery truck goes up the hill at about 3 in the morning and leaves 15 minutes later. At this point I have no doubt it's cartel.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (m0WlR)

191 Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2026 04:23 PM (9I5W+)

I'm talking about the larger scale formations we have, not just Spec Op types.

If'n we're going in anyway... go all in...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:27 PM (mP0Kj)

192 I'd luv to have someone in the Fed Gov do a DEEP dive on who funded the last couple of Arizona elections.

Funny how the Border Hawk got stomped.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

GOPe in Arizona and Georgia were turned in 2020 and still worked against us in 2024.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:27 PM (8avO+)

193 sk yourself why the Cartels' influence of politicians would stop at the border

= =

It doesn't. My neighbor bought their million dollar house for cash without a realtor and they don't speak a word of english. Every night a delivery truck goes up the hill at about 3 in the morning and leaves 15 minutes later. At this point I have no doubt it's cartel.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (m0WlR)

or doordash

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:27 PM (8avO+)

194 Awe.finish the border then invade and seize the Yucatan...

The Kingdom of Mayania.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23, 2026 04:28 PM (4NO2D)

195 On Rogan: 🚨 Special Forces Vet. Evan Hafer: “If we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not gonna understand what the fuck is going on... They are in for a world of ultra-violence they've never actually felt before.”

Founder of BRCC, Evan Hafer?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:28 PM (kgE5c)

196 Mexico is not safe and the statistics don’t even cover most of the crime. There are in fact scores of people who disappear every year and are never found. Kidnapping is a way of life for some of f the cartels.

People like to say, oh I’ve been going for years and I let my kids go, etc.. What they don’t understand is you are rolling the dice every time you go.

BTW those are the same people now stuck in country expressing disbelief while asking us to come save them.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2026 04:29 PM (9I5W+)

197
There is a failed narco state on our southern border because our country consumes more illegal drugs than almost the rest of the world combined.

Posted by: Mister Scott

================

Also, our country consumes more illegal drugs than almost the rest of the world combined because there is a failed narco state on our southern border.

Vicious circle. Death spiral. Doom loop.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:29 PM (Nh98F)

198 Yeah, good question. Wonder if they told her some tainted info to localize him for the strike?
Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026

Because there isn’t a cartel collation - she doesn’t belong to all of them, I would guess Sinaloa. Mencho was Jalisco. And if she were to come out against any of them without one of the biggest giving her what to say and air cover, she would be dead in short order. Make no mistake.

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:29 PM (OoFl2)

199 On Rogan: 🚨 Special Forces Vet. Evan Hafer: “If we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not gonna understand what the fuck is going on... They are in for a world of ultra-violence they've never actually felt before.”

Founder of BRCC, Evan Hafer?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:28 PM (kgE5c)

Declaring war is for nations. Cartels you just start shooting them.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM (8avO+)

200 Baja California is ours. (Is says so right on the name)
We need to claim it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM (uaLwQ)

201 If only Americans wouldn’t be such drug freaks, there would be no demand for drugs and there would be no drug cartels.

He's not wrong. He's just unaware its mostly his people doing it.

you spelled "the US Marines" wrong. Its right there in the Anthem - the Shores of Tripoli. We got tired of our ships being hit so we sent some marines and the navy to shell the area and teach them a lesson

True but incomplete. The French, British, and other navies were also involved and well, more significant than the US.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM (PYyV9)

202 Two in the cabaza for La Presidente

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM (wBaIH)

203 BTW those are the same people now stuck in country expressing disbelief while asking us to come save them.
Posted by: Marcus T at

I have been to MX a lot. And I have always had an armed detail. It just is what it is.

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM (OoFl2)

204 This is Trump's fault.

Posted by: The View at February 23, 2026 04:31 PM (UiDk0)

205 51 With so much evil running amok in the world, sometimes it feels like we are approaching the end times.
Posted by: Bulg

Mounting biblical evidence points to 2033 as the End of All Things. We are in the midst of Judgment Day now.

Posted by: Sound The Alarm at February 23, 2026 04:31 PM (oftw2)

206 "Visiting Canada’s foreign affairs website is always great fun. They advise Canadians that many states permit Americans to openly carry guns in public and that there is a “gun violence” problem here. And yet…
Posted by: Cow Demon"

Tourists will be safe as long as they avoid the big urban shitholes where MAGA rules the streets

Posted by: Ripley at February 23, 2026 04:31 PM (GUOwU)

207

the Left has resurrected communism as their stated goal while painting the nazis as their main enemy. Nationalists are now claiming that banner mostly because they are against the internationalist anti-free market, anti-white bolshies.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

I mean I won't be happy about making the choice, but if they force me to choose between the two, they're not going to be happy either. ¡Viva Sieg!

Posted by: imp at February 23, 2026 04:31 PM (g6TN6)

208 I have been to MX a lot. And I have always had an armed detail. It just is what it is.
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM

Piper is a cartel bigwig.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23, 2026 04:31 PM (4NO2D)

209 A big inheritance of misrule from the Spanish colonial era and French 'intervention' era hasn't helped but even the former banana republic area seems more stable these days.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Oil and minerals institutionalized thievery and corruption in the Mexican elite for at least the last century. Add in the various Marxists, soft and hard, foreign meddling (turn of the century was Japan, now it is China a century later), generational resentment of El Norte, and the relative impoverishment of Indians in the South, have stirred up a toxic brew.

Mexico had and has rotten ten percent of elites that live life on easy mode while the rest suffer and that makes it easy for the Mexican elite to simply make deals with the cartels in exchange for easy money. All of this creates a parallel criminal shadow government behind the public face of the titular government.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2026 04:32 PM (E4rtv)

210 Founder of BRCC, Evan Hafer?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:28 PM (kgE5c)

The Evan Hafer that torpedoed BRCC with a NYT interview? The Evan Hafer that tried to distance BRCC from Kyle Rittenhouse? The Evan Hafer that thinks "civilians" shouldn't own firearms?

That F'n Guy?

Posted by: pookysgirl has opinions at February 23, 2026 04:32 PM (Wt5PA)

211 63 Know who else's name didn't sound Mexican?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at February 23, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1)

Vicente Fox?

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 23, 2026 04:32 PM (fYhK6)

212 This is where I repeat two things I (and, probably others) have said before:

1) Time to issue letters of marque and reprisal on the cartels.
2) Mexico should be south California in terms of tourism and prosperity, and would be with a better government and culture.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2026 04:32 PM (PYyV9)

213 Here's what we do. We get the UN to insert heavy forces and then watch them get drilled in their blue helmets. Then the cartels are out of ammo we drive in like we own the fucking place. Win-Win.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 23, 2026 04:33 PM (pZ64F)

214 Hello, Canadian consulate? Yes, we’re Canadian citizens and we’re trapped in Mexico!

Have you thought about just killing yourselves?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2026 04:33 PM (u73oe)

215 Piper is a cartel bigwig.
Posted by: toby928(c)

She's their kale kingpin.

Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

216 Declaring war is for nations. Cartels you just start shooting them.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM

Exactly. A little coffee helps keep one awake for shooting cartel members.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (kgE5c)

217 Two in the cabaza for La Presidente

Is cabaza another word for boobs?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

218 208 I have been to MX a lot. And I have always had an armed detail. It just is what it is.
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM

Piper is a cartel bigwig.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23

My life would be so much more exciting if I was!

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (OoFl2)

219 Protip. Never be a mayor in Mexico. Or a journalist.

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (pDt9x)

220
27

Schienbaum could have been given the same options as Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela: take our help to get out from under your cartels.

If I were in her shoes, I think I'd seek asylum in the US, at least until the smoke clears.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2026 03:51 PM

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Hard for her to do after building a political career on badmouthing the US and advocating for reconquista. And any family she leaves behind would probably be dead.

(Maybe something will happen to Trump. Maybe she'll be saved. Maybe french fries are health food. Maybe.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (VWtfl)

221 Go long on ice axe futures.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (OzWW4)

222 Here's one story on CJNG and their depravity, of thousands and thousands--most never reported:
They killed the father in front of his young son.
Then flayed the child alive while they laughed at his screams.

This is the same cartel that leftist were openly appealing to to attack ICE agents.

And yes, the same cartel the federal judges are protecting and keeping in the US.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (HXT0k)

223 188 Screw mexico.
Awe.finish the border then invade and seize the Yucatan... Which sits in a shiitload of oil. Let the rest of mexico whither on the vine.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2026 04:26 PM (2WIwB)

Kick the UN out of New York...

Bring the boys home from Africa, EU, and Mid East... plant em in Texas... then, start South until we take our Canal Back.

Tell Canukistan that they can either Join the US, or it will be a total border embargo...

Due to the new Security concerns, tell Denmark we are going to take Greenland.

10% Tariff on any good coming into American Ports, on a NON US Merchant ship, and that money is earmarked to expand the US Navy... (will help defense budget, plus would rebuild American shipping).

You now have a North America, with very secure and controllable borders.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:34 PM (mP0Kj)

224 The Evan Hafer that torpedoed BRCC with a NYT interview? The Evan Hafer that tried to distance BRCC from Kyle Rittenhouse? The Evan Hafer that thinks "civilians" shouldn't own firearms?

That F'n Guy?
Posted by: pookysgirl has opinions at February 23, 2026 04:32 PM

Ayuh. That F'n guy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:35 PM (kgE5c)

225 215 Piper is a cartel bigwig.
Posted by: toby928(c)

She's their kale kingpin.
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:33 PM
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Fair trade?
Gluten free?

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at February 23, 2026 04:35 PM (2Ez/1)

226 you spelled "the US Marines" wrong. Its right there in the Anthem - the Shores of Tripoli. We got tired of our ships being hit so we sent some marines and the navy to shell the area and teach them a lesson

True but incomplete. The French, British, and other navies were also involved and well, more significant than the US.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2026 04:30 PM (PYyV9)

Tripoli was 1801-05. The Brits and French were involved in sinking the Franco Spanish fleets and invading Austria for a considerable time afterward. I'm sure post Waterloo they arranged the situation there as they saw fit.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:35 PM (8avO+)

227 We should just take MX and keep on going all the down to the Panama Canal, which we built. 😂

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:35 PM (OoFl2)

228 "Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework of the law."
---
The narcos recognize no law other than raw, naked force.

The law of the jungle, in other words.

Kill or be killed is the only rule they understand or obey.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2026 04:36 PM (ESVrU)

229 If was in a location that was getting sporty, damn sure I wouldn't be drinking.

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2026 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)

230 Fun fact about Sheinbaum, her grandpa was a communist emigre from Lithuania.

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (pDt9x)

231 We should just take MX and keep on going all the down to the Panama Canal, which we built. 😂
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:35 PM

Manifest Destiny South, bitchez!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (kgE5c)

232 I sold a horse to Vincente Fox. He did not pay for him with a satchel full of 100 dollar bills..

Posted by: Ben Had at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (+nEug)

233 Living in Texas, one tends to eventually make friends with some Mexicans, as we have.

They travel back and forth with some regularity, and they have told us to stay the fuck out of Mexico because there's nothing there worth our lives. We have listened.

Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (5aZAZ)

234 Our border would be easier to defend if it was down in Panama.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (OzWW4)

235 227 We should just take MX and keep on going all the down to the Panama Canal, which we built. 😂
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Stay on the Pacific side. Colon is like Detroit but moar primitive.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (pZ64F)

236 The law of the jungle, in other words.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That usage bothers me. The Law of the Jungle in Kipling was a very orderly and civilized code.

Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

237 Also, our country consumes more illegal drugs than almost the rest of the world combined because there is a failed narco state on our southern border.

Vicious circle. Death spiral. Doom loop.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 23, 2026 04:29 PM (Nh98F)

the country that used to use more drugs than any other was China during the Opium wars, which was a political move by the British to destroy a competitor in the far east. Fentanyl and cocaine are being shipped in to the US by cartels, and the profits go to Asia and whoever is backing the cartels and the growers. It is destroying the US. Money laundering is a huge element in this, because the problem with holding millions in cash is that all your employees will steal. The banks are involved, and Trump wants it stopped. Treasury is the most likely place to hold all the proofs of transfers.
I don't think Trump wants the heavens to fall, but he does want justice, and he may decide he doesn't care so much about the heavens after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2026 04:38 PM (rbvCR)

238 We should just take MX and keep on going all the down to the Panama Canal, which we built. 😂
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:35 PM

Can we just lay them under tribute?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23, 2026 04:38 PM (4NO2D)

239 So Piper is in the pay of Big Kale...

Posted by: I knew it! at February 23, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1)

240 235 227 We should just take MX and keep on going all the down to the Panama Canal, which we built. 😂
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Stay on the Pacific side. Colon is like Detroit but moar primitive.
Posted by: pudinhead at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (pZ64F)

Why, it’s like it is the colon of Central America!!!

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2026 04:38 PM (pDt9x)

241 Mexico took 40-45 years to get to this point and fixing it is likely to take about as long.

If only people could understand that it took over 100 years for the US to get to the point it's at. (not a dig towards you, whig)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 23, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

242 I sold a horse to Vincente Fox. He did not pay for him with a satchel full of 100 dollar bills..

Posted by: Ben Had at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM

Diamonds?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23, 2026 04:39 PM (4NO2D)

243 That usage bothers me. The Law of the Jungle in Kipling was a very orderly and civilized code.
Posted by: Bulg at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)
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Nature is red in tooth and claw. Always has been. Always will be.

Kipling was imposing his own civilized ideals on creatures that can never understand them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2026 04:39 PM (ESVrU)

244 >>>The narcos recognize no law other than raw, naked force.

And Science!

Posted by: Fauci, Pfizer & Dems at February 23, 2026 04:39 PM (GI9/m)

245 So Piper is in the pay of Big Kale...
Posted by: I knew it! at February 23, 2026 04:38 PM

Better than being in the pay of Big Penguin.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2026 04:40 PM (kgE5c)

246 Kipling was admirably cynical about Empire, and Elites.

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2026 04:40 PM (pDt9x)

247 Kipling was imposing his own civilized ideals on creatures that can never understand them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2026 04:39 PM (ESVrU)

Except cats. They keep their paws clean.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:41 PM (8avO+)

248 A better way to handle this instead of invading, just close the border and announce it will be closed for the next 5 years. No Mexicans allowed in the US, no Americans allowed in Mexico.

And kill anyone that crosses the border.

Absent drug money from the US market the cartels will eventually collapse and Mexico will try something else...

Posted by: Moctezuma at February 23, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

249 nood AOC

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 23, 2026 04:42 PM (6ydKt)

250 Piper is a cartel bigwig.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23

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I heard that, too. Although, rumor has it she was kicked out for slighting some of the Lt's...always asking them "are you really going to wear that?"

Posted by: Orson at February 23, 2026 04:42 PM (dIske)

251 "The narcos recognize no law other than raw, naked force."

So outlaws then. Outside the law. No rights whatsoever.

Shinebaum is a twat.

Posted by: Ghost of Tom Lantos at February 23, 2026 04:42 PM (cS1cw)

252 The US Women's Hockey Team actually wrote a very classy decline to Trump on his invite to attend the SOTU saying they were highly honored by his invite and if the athletes hadn't already made commitments they would have loved to attend - so no real "we hate Trump" thing going on here - sounds like they just couldn't get the team available for the event.

Posted by: Boswell at February 23, 2026 04:43 PM (j10i6)

253 242 I sold a horse to Vincente Fox. He did not pay for him with a satchel full of 100 dollar bills..

Posted by: Ben Had at February 23, 2026 04:37 PM

Diamonds?
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 23, 2026

See? Ben Had is the connected one!

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2026 04:43 PM (OoFl2)

254 I know we’re taking for granted that Sheinbaum is in the cartel’s pocket.
But she must have at least acquiesced bumping off the cartel kingpin. Why would she do that?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2026 04:43 PM (jbnUc)

255 If only people could understand that it took over 100 years for the US to get to the point it's at. (not a dig towards you, whig)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 23, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

Yup, early 1900s brought yuge changes to our Fed Government... everything from a National Bank, and how we Tax, to Women voting and how Senators became popularly elected.

and then... WW1, Spanish Flu, then a few years later, the Great Depression... then WW2, which cemented Fed Gov oversite over almost all aspects of life.

That 50 year time span really changed the US... and we are still dealing with the results.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2026 04:45 PM (mP0Kj)

256 A better way to handle this instead of invading, just close the border and announce it will be closed for the next 5 years. No Mexicans allowed in the US, no Americans allowed in Mexico.

And kill anyone that crosses the border.

Absent drug money from the US market the cartels will eventually collapse and Mexico will try something else...
Posted by: Moctezuma at February 23, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

you could certainly with modern tech keep a watch with troops and drones over a wide area of North Mexico and sent teams out for anything suspicious. With both sides on the lookout the relatively few population centers could be cleaned up and made safe.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:45 PM (8avO+)

257 I know we’re taking for granted that Sheinbaum is in the cartel’s pocket.
But she must have at least acquiesced bumping off the cartel kingpin. Why would she do that?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2026 04:43 PM (jbnUc)

Did they tell her? It is unclear.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:46 PM (8avO+)

258 A better way to handle this instead of invading, just close the border and announce it will be closed for the next 5 years. No Mexicans allowed in the US, no Americans allowed in Mexico.

Yeah, No.

There are a lot of American expats in Mexico with nice estates to retire in. You just don't tell them to pack up and leave everything behind and come to the US which in of itself is no longer an American country with its own dysfunctions and on its own precipice of being taken over by:

Choose one or more from the following:
☐ Muslims
☐ Drug Cartels
☐ Communists
☐ Deep State Leftists

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:47 PM (U4c/V)

259 While I am sure Mexico is beautiful, based on my college trip, I would not take the chance now and be stuck there as some Americans are.

The president of Mexico is a fool.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 23, 2026 03:57 PM (WONhk)
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Have been to Cancun and Playo del Mar (which I am sure I have mispelled). Enjoyed the time, but I would think there would be a time not to go. And now is one of those times. Timing is everything.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 23, 2026 04:48 PM (GZYu7)

260 Absent drug money from the US market the cartels will eventually collapse and Mexico will try something else...

Not saying we shouldn't, but are you prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse when a whole bunch of life-long addicts are deprived of a flow of cheap drugs?

And by addicts, I mean those addicted to having huge sums of money flowing to them in the Narcotics Industrial Complex.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:49 PM (U4c/V)

261 While I am sure Mexico is beautiful, based on my college trip, I would not take the chance now and be stuck there as some Americans are.

Spring Break is in a few weeks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 23, 2026 04:50 PM (9s47C)

262 Tripoli was 1801-05. The Brits and French were involved in sinking the Franco Spanish fleets and invading Austria for a considerable time afterward. I'm sure post Waterloo they arranged the situation there as they saw fit.

Yeah it was one of the many minor hits on the Muslims because of their attacking ships, but then they started up against after a few years. It was after the Napoleonic wars that the coalition came in and mopped up, utterly ending the entire operation. Muslims were never again a force in the Mediterranean, the slave raids ended.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2026 04:50 PM (PYyV9)

263
Nobody carpet bombs anymore. Planes and drones and missiles and artillery can drop a shell through a window frame anywhere within range.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2026 04:10 PM (8avO+)

Hey, carpet bombing is EXTREMELY accurate. The bombs always hit the ground.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2026 05:11 PM (y9nCu)

264 North America is a fucking shitshow.

Above the U.S.A., there is a country full of Muslims, Indians, Communists and fags in love with socialism and "mercy" killing people.

Below the U.S.A., there is a country run by fucking narco-terrorists who all hate the U.S.A. and want to destroy it by uncontrolled drugs, violence and illegal alien invasion into the U.S.A.

And within the USA, over the past 2 decades we have been taken over by Muslims, Indians, illegal aliens, Mexicans and fags, all of whom hate the United States and are working together with most of the U.S. government -- who also hate the United States -- to commit mass fraud, violence and murder of U.S. citizens in an effort to destroy the country from within.

What a fucking shitshow...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 23, 2026 06:14 PM (P5BPp)

265 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAEuzsUm1eM

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 23, 2026 06:20 PM (jrgJz)

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