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If the tide lifts the boat, I guess it's ok? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trump is the best president Canada and Mexico have had, for decades.

A really healthy dose of nationalism has arisen in both countries. Plenty of proposals for development, that wouldn't have been considered two years ago, are on the table today.

Did you know that Canada has inter-provincial trade barriers (such a dumb thing)? I just did, because of this recent tariff ordeal. Tearing them down is on the table now. Good!

Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.

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> Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.

This is plain wrong. There's literally a Wikipedia page created 18 years ago documenting the well-publicized Mexican Drug War between the Mexican government (supported by various governments) against all the cartels. Literally thousands of soldiers and police killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war

Your wikipedia article is irrelevant. Go live in one of those places and you might learn how reality is. None of those entities is a monolithic bloc acting as if they were a single person.

Hint: often police and drug dealers ostensibly fight here and there while politicians and bureaucrats at the top and some police departments have their own deals with them.

Don't trust those lying facts and fibbing eyewitnesses and fraudulent records! Trust me, telling you to form an opinion based on anecdotal evidence neither of us has and that I've entire made up!

Sure pal, you definitely know more things than someone who lived there.

"Source: Wikipedia" as well.

Your comment is everything that's wrong with the "smaht" people of this era.

Aaand ... just in today [1].

This is truly unprecedented, these guys are the cream of the crop of narco in Mexico. This would have never happened if not for Trump's pressure. Thanks, President Trump!

"Hurr durr where's muh wokepedia reference ..." oh yeah, you got me there pal :'(.

1: https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-27/mexico-e...

Dude, like you, I'm also Mexican. My parents live in Guanajuato state. My entire family has been affected by what's been happening in Mexico. I never argued that the entities are monolithic block, which would be an absurd claim to make. I was correcting your claim that "Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos", which is a factually wrong claim. You can claim they weren't doing enough, or doing it incorrectly, which I would agree with, but that's very different from implying that nothing was being done. Just see this article published yesterday on the U.S./Mexican collaboration between 2001 and 2016 that lead to El Chapo's captures:

https://www.newsweek.com/secret-us-drones-led-arrest-notorio...

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