You hit the nail on the head. US corruption is hidden in a different way. Drugs and Drug enforcement is a business in the USA just as it is in Mexico, and lets not forget Canada in this. Canada was doing the same thing for many years. BC bud being grown in warehouses using grow lights out in small towns with no jobs. New Trucks, houses being built, furniture being bought, bank accounts being opened, school programs being supported, city halls being refurbished. Who would want to stop this influx of cash? It is only when the product produces more problems that what is solving is when the politicians will begin to do something. At this point, a few stone heads dying from OD is not a bid enough problem.

That's why we will never see a solution to the drug problem, or any other problem that turns a profit, why "underdeveloped" nations remain that way. This is the result of allowing a few dozen people to hold more wealth than the rest of the population combined. I'm currently reading Jason Hickel's Divide and it is about the economic disparity across the world, of which the flow and interconnectedness of drugs, money and guns is no small part. You might call it Critical Colonialism Theory, the idea that--even though we live in a supposedly post-colonial world, the wealthy nations, US, Britian, Western Europe (and sometimes Canada) still institutionally view the rest of the world as colonies.

A monster, clearly. A nation that imprisons more of its people both in raw numbers and as a percentage of their population than any other nation on Earth, and does so for corporate profit, might be called fascist.

If there are a whole bunch of people breaking a law, the problem may be the law, not the people.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartel-violence-drugs-lopez-obrador-0151fa0f418c62aac1738fbffefec8b5

AMLO continues to insist that fentanyl is not produced in Mexico, and it is a US problem. A couple excerpts from the AP article.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at what he called U.S. “spying” and “interference” in Mexico, days after U.S. prosecutors announced charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel for smuggling massive amounts of fentanyl into the United States.

López Obrador own administration has acknowledged finding dozens of labs where fentanyl is produced in Mexico from Chinese precursor chemicals, mainly in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Most illegal fentanyl is pressed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills made to look like other medications like Xanax, oxycodone, or mixed into other drugs, including heroin and cocaine. Many people who die of overdoses in the United States do not know they are taking fentanyl.

There is a president south of the United States that is not the sharpest tack in the box.

I think hoping that the USA changes its drug policy is equally futile.

We mustn't give up! We need to raise our voices and let our erected representatives know that we want change! Despair is not an option! Don't Give Up! Never Give Up!

Si, como no. Yeah, right. Timmac is right. Time for a siesta.

You'd almost think the only reason the war on drugs exists is to keep the budgets flowing to all those federal, state and local police departments dedicated to busting dealers and users.

These are the real Welfare Queens! Don't forget the private prisons!

It is so telling that many of the law enforcement departments along the border let the couriers flow north with the drugs but bust them on the way back with the cash. Well, of course, the department gets to keep the cash. No Fourth Amendment problem with suspected drug couriers. How do you think they paid for their brand new SUVs?

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/texas-police-can-seize-money-and-property-little-transparency-so-we-got-data-ourselves

What have we created?!

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartel-violence-drugs-lopez-obrador-0151fa0f418c62aac1738fbffefec8b5

AMLO continues to insist that fentanyl is not produced in Mexico, and it is a US problem. A couple excerpts from the AP article.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at what he called U.S. “spying” and “interference” in Mexico, days after U.S. prosecutors announced charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel for smuggling massive amounts of fentanyl into the United States.

López Obrador own administration has acknowledged finding dozens of labs where fentanyl is produced in Mexico from Chinese precursor chemicals, mainly in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Most illegal fentanyl is pressed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills made to look like other medications like Xanax, oxycodone, or mixed into other drugs, including heroin and cocaine. Many people who die of overdoses in the United States do not know they are taking fentanyl.

He's right. THE PROBLEM isn't anywhere else but in the USA. Why in the world do so many of their citizens even want this substance? But since obviously so many do, and they're overdosing on it because it doesn't come in a regulated standardized well-measured form like alcohol, pecker pills or "legal" antidepressants, it makes a helluva lot more sense to LEGALIZE IT, TREAT THE ADDICTS, and maybe make an effort to ameliorate over 80 years of FAILED DRUG POLICIES by making it safer for folks to do the recreational substances they want to do and obviously are going to acquire no matter what. Better the local pharmacy than the back-alley dealer peddling the crap produced by violent organized criminals who only care about the multi-billion dollar a year black market the U.S. government hands them on a silver plate. Oh, look, they arrested a few. For every arrest there are a thousand more violent less ethical ambitious gangbangers eager to take their place. You'd almost think the only reason the war on drugs exists is to keep the budgets flowing to all those federal, state and local police departments dedicated to busting dealers and users.

Blaming the folks supplying the demand is futile, counterproductive, and simply stupid. As time has proven. As is blaming the folks who use recreational substances.

AMLO continues to insist that fentanyl is not produced in Mexico, and it is a US problem. A couple excerpts from the AP article.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at what he called U.S. “spying” and “interference” in Mexico, days after U.S. prosecutors announced charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel for smuggling massive amounts of fentanyl into the United States.

López Obrador own administration has acknowledged finding dozens of labs where fentanyl is produced in Mexico from Chinese precursor chemicals, mainly in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Most illegal fentanyl is pressed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills made to look like other medications like Xanax, oxycodone, or mixed into other drugs, including heroin and cocaine. Many people who die of overdoses in the United States do not know they are taking fentanyl.