Andrés Manuel López Obrador delivered his second-to-last state of the union address and what was most striking was what he didn't talk about.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded to what he took as thinly veiled U.S. criticism of his controversial electoral reforms in Mexico.There was also no mention of the fact that seizures of methamphetamines rose from about 36 tons in 2022 to 230 tons in the first eight months of 2023. On Friday, prosecutors announced they seized 2.6 million fentanyl pills hidden in the frame of a freight truck on a highway in northern Mexico that leads to the U.S.
And in recent months Mexico has seen instances of brutality and drug cartel control it hadn’t seen since the darkest days of the 2006-12 drug war. Security officials have acknowledged that in recent months, law enforcement officers and soldiers have been targeted by roadside bombs, car bombs and bomb-dropping drones.
In the western state of Jalisco, videos surfaced in August showing a young man kidnapped by a drug cartel — one of a group of five friends — being forced to execute one of his fellow victims. Forcing victims to fight each other to death was a hallmark of the notorious Zetas cartel in 2011.
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