Trump Postpones Drug Cartel's Terrorist Designation as a Show of Respect to Mexican President

President Trump has decided to support the decision of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and postpone the designation of Mexican Drug Cartels as a terrorist organization.

The Mexican President had expressed his appreciation for the President of the United States of America for respecting their decisions and maintaining a good neighboring relationship with them.

In just two months, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel had already taken the lives of thirteen police officers in Mexico; The Sinaloa Cartel had taken hostage a city after the detainment of one of its leading members; and the recent death of 9 citizens of the United States of America in the northern part of Mexico from the hands of one of Mexico's deadly gangs.

When United States citizens were gravely affected by of the violence of Mexican drug cartels, President Donald Trump finally stepped in to suggest a solution to the excessive and never-ending violence of cartels in Mexico. President Trump suggested declaring these cartels as terrorists.

The designation of these violent Mexican drug cartels may not totally sound absurd because of the harm and violence that these groups of people have inflicted or inflicting to the country and its citizens. This suggestion is not fully supported by some Mexican officials saying that it does not only pose a risk to the sovereignty of the country but also a possibility of an uncontrolled US military intervention in the country of Mexico. Plus, it does not postpone the event that U.S. weapons are being exchanged over the US-Mexican border.

Some political experts also alerted that the suggestion of the President to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist may create negative effects such as causing difficulties in the implementation of the current immigration policies in the US. Another problem that may arise is the possibility of the United States companies and its citizens to be suspected of helping Mexican cartels which will significantly affect the relationship between Mexico and the United States of America.

Last week, William Barr had conversed with the President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and other high ranking officials of the country to talk about coming up with solutions to fight against the violence of the country's cartels. According to a suggestion by the Justice Department of the country, the points that the government must focus on is the controlling the illegal financing of these cartels and interfering with the illegal flow of money, destructive weapons, and illegal drugs among these cartels.

Barr had scheduled a meeting with President Trump discussing the succeeding steps regarding the Mexican Cartels.

One other problem for the cooperation of the US and Mexico's fight against these cartels is the difference of views of its current leaders.

Upon acquiring leadership in the country, Mexico's current president released to the public his slogan of "hugs, not bullets". He had also promised to the people of Mexico to stop the disastrous strategy of fighting drugs led by its previous leader.

López Obrador had also said that if the United States wants to lend a hand to Mexico then it should control gun trafficking coming from the US to the country of Mexico. According to the defense minister of Mexico, 70% of the firearms confiscated in Mexico are bought from the United States of America.