Episode 535: Mexican Drug Cartels – Part 1
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On March 3rd, two Americans were killed in daylight abductions, after their mini-van of four traveled across the U.S. – Mexico border into Matamoros, Mexico. The Gulf Cartel later apologized and said the kidnappers had acted on their own, and they were turning them over to authorities. The kidnappings and murders have led the United States to evaluate their current relationship with Mexico and how much the cartels control Mexico, in an effort to get fentanyl and other illegal drugs into the United States. Overdose deaths killed 100,000 Americans last year. Is it time the United States take a stronger stance against the drug cartels and treat them like an enemy?
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of News World, I want to take some time to really share with you, thinking |
| 0:10.4 | about Mexico and the crisis of the Mexican dog cartels and the crisis of the Mexican President |
| 0:18.2 | Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador called Amlo, which is what I'll use for the rest of this conversation, |
| 0:25.6 | is what you have coming together is a more and more aggressive cartel system. And a president |
| 0:33.4 | of Mexico who basically has decided that his approach is what he announced in 2018, which |
| 0:40.6 | is hugs, not bullets. Now, you know, when asked about kidnappings, which is one of the things |
| 0:47.6 | which has caused us to really start looking at Mexico, Obrador said, quote, how do we avoid |
| 0:53.2 | kidnapping with a better society with justice? So his approach has been basically to sidestep |
| 1:00.9 | the cartels to avoid taking them head on and as a result to really encourage the growth of the |
| 1:10.2 | cartels in Mexico and the cartels are already very, very serious problem. |
| 1:23.6 | So let me start with the Mexican president himself, because it was his statement in a press conference |
| 1:37.3 | last Thursday, which led me to decide we had to take very seriously where we are and we have to |
| 1:44.0 | recognize how really big a problem we're faced. In a press conference, which was his reaction to |
| 1:52.0 | Republican Congressman reacting to a terrible moment when two Americans were killed in daylight |
| 1:58.8 | abductions after their minivan total four traveled across the US, Mexican border into Madamoros, Mexico. |
| 2:06.7 | The golf cartel later apologized and said the kidnappers had acted on their own and they were |
| 2:12.9 | turning them over to authorities. Now, first of all, the arrogance of the cartel apologizing and the |
| 2:18.8 | idea that Americans are basically at risk and the state department has said you were at real risk |
| 2:24.6 | now going to Mexico, which is very sobering and the total number of kidnappings over the last |
| 2:30.6 | few years has escalated dramatically much more than I had realized. So a number of Republican |
| 2:36.3 | Congressmen said very strong things and in reaction to that, this is what President Obrador said, |
| 2:45.2 | we establish our position at once. We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene, |
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