Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric has entered the mainstream of his party
. Most of the fentanyl they consumed is believed to come from south of the border. Drug gangs, predominantly the Sinaloa cartel based in the north-west of Mexico, import chemical precursors from China to cook into fentanyl in clandestine labs. Making fentanyl is a profitable business. America’s Drug Enforcement Administration reckons it costs the Sinaloa cartel just ten cents to make a pill that they can then sell wholesale to dealers for 50.
Still, the clue to the hardening of Republican attitudes towards Mexico lies less in these facts than in politics. And, as with so much to do with the Republican Party, the source is Mr Trump. According to a memoir by Mark Esper, his former defence secretary, the then-president mused more than once during his term about firing missiles at Mexican cartels’ drug labs. Like many of Mr Trump’s ideas, the outlandish has become Republican mainstream as his contenders try to outdo him in hawkishness.
Despite the mendacious comments on both sides of the border, bilateral co-operation on fentanyl is going fairly well. In May Mexico passed tough legislation that increases controls onanti-trafficking programme. Though this is far from the heyday of collaboration between 2006 and 2012, in the past few years Mexican security forces have worked more closely with their American counterparts to cut off financing for drug bosses, arrest them and even kill them.
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