I'm John Batchler. This is the New World Report. I welcome my colleagues. Ernesto Arousho, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Brazil.

He's traveling overseas. Alessandro Pena Excluza, an opposition geopolitical thinker and writer and politician.

He's traveling overseas. And gentlemen, the events of the hour turn to Mexico in violence ongoing in the Mexican state of

Halisco. The report is that a major drug lord, El Mancho, he was called in his lifetime,

is now deceased, and the Halisco cartel is retaliating in some fashion gunplay everywhere. The reason I

mention it first, it's on the U.S. border, but this is the Mexico of Marina Party, headed by

Amlo, the former president. And while Claudia Scheinbaum looks to be confronting the cartels, and that has been the complaint of the U.S. for some years now, the cartels need to be stopped.

We have every reason to believe that Marina and Amlo, in some fashion, vouchsafed this action by Mexican authorities leading to the gunfight.

Amlo is very powerful.

So I start with you, Alejandro.

Do you see the events in Mexico being important or critical in any fashion in Venezuela?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

Thanks for the invitation, John.

Yes, they're important and they are critical, and it also shows that Donald Trump was

totally right about fighting the cartels.

You can see this in the reaction in Mexico because there are terrorist groups.

And the U.S. has designed a new generation, Halisco cartel, which is the name, as a global terrorist group.

It works not only in all Mexico, but also in the 50 states of the United States, and incredibly, in 70 countries.

It is the most powerful cartel right now. So when El Mincho was killed, then they

had this terrorist reaction in Mexico. And it's important that they started this war, because it's

better to have it now and not to wait for a few years until it becomes even stronger and wider.

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