{"id":28304,"date":"2025-02-11T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=28304"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:05:57","slug":"drug-and-arms-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/drug-and-arms-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug and arms trafficking should be a bilateral issue between Mexico and the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28309\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28309\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Drug and arms trafficking\" width=\"657\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/guardia-nacional-1068x712.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drug and arms trafficking, this issue should be bilateral, accepting the responsibility of the United States. Photo: Manuel Ortiz Esc\u00e1mez \u2013 P360<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28304-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mano-a-mano-12-de-febrero_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mano-a-mano-12-de-febrero_mixdown.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mano-a-mano-12-de-febrero_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed Mexico for drug and arms trafficking among Mexican cartels, however, it has been proven that these weapons come from the United States, so this issue should be bilateral, accepting the responsibility of this country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CATO Institute<\/a>, 89 percent of fentanyl traffickers in the United States are Americans, meaning that cartels in this country are taking advantage of ethnic and racial profiling to arrest people, as mentioned by journalist Manuel Ortiz during the radio program Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press with Marcos Guti\u00e9rrez on Hecho en California\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ortiz toured the Tijuana border, where he was able to observe the work of the National Guard, how all cars are inspected by the agents, checking between the seats and the rest of the car, reminding them that they are looking for drugs such as fentanyl but always respecting human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the radio program, he mentioned that the physical profile for a drug dealer is very specific, since people with white skin are not doubted, &quot;it&#039;s just that here the white people can come and go, since they are not searched or anything, that&#039;s how they can pass the drugs,&quot; said Ortiz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the people used to traffic fentanyl are Americans who can cross the border without any problem, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of weapons, the journalist explained that 70 percent of those seized and used by Mexican cartels come from distributors in the United States, mostly from legal sales in Arizona, Texas and California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe sale of weapons has been justified, in the Second Amendment of the United States it says: the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, on top of this it also says that a well-regulated militia is necessary for the security of a free state, that is to say that it associates the freedom of the United States with the carrying of weapons.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gun dealers make a lot of money and there is evidence of links to the Republican Party, not only economic but also ideological, said the photographer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;The phenomenon of drug trafficking should be addressed on a binational basis, but this is not being done in the United States. The discourse of drug traffickers as terrorists does not match the actions that are being carried out with the United States,&quot; said Ortiz.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also commented that there is currently a large presence of National Guard elements on the border, but not police on the United States side. \u201cThe police presence is mostly on the Mexican side, and it is not a partial or equal effort.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/northern-border-operation-2\/\">More than a ton of drugs seized in first days of Operation Northern Border<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El presidente Donald Trump ha culpado en diversas ocasiones a M\u00e9xico por el tr\u00e1fico de drogas y armas entre los carteles mexicanos, sin embargo, se ha comprobado que est\u00e1s armas provienen de Estados Unidos, por lo que, este tema deber\u00eda ser bilateral aceptando la responsabilidad de este pa\u00eds.\u00a0 De Acuerdo al CATO Institute, el 89 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":28309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,118],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usworld","8":"category-migracion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28322,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions\/28322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}