Trump's plan to designate Mexican drug cartels as 'terror' groups has ignited a raging debate in Mexico.
Mexico City - Donald Trump's plan to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations has ignited a raging debate in Mexico on whether the groups' horrific violence should be considered terrorism.And experts say such a designation would have little impact on the ground, anyway.
Whereas Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group, ETA, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the rest of the 68 groups on the list have political or religious motives, drug cartels' main goal is making money. Prominent members of one of the families, the LeBarons, sent a petition to the White House urging Trump to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.
The remark on"designating" cartels came in response to a question from conservative media host Bill O'Reilly, who asked whether Trump would react to the Mormon massacre by adding the groups to the blacklist and"hitting them with drones.
"Mexico's national history is constructed upon the reference point of an expanding, domineering, imposing, imperious United States," said Carlos Rodriguez Ulloa, of Mexican security think tank CASEDE.Little would change on the ground if the United States blacklisted Mexican cartels, because the countries already cooperate extensively against them, on both the security and financial fronts.
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