Brigitte García, 27, is the latest politician to be killed amid ongoing gang violence.
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Brigitte García, 27, is the latest politician to be killed amid ongoing gang violence.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/04gzp
There is one simple way to stop this. End the war on drugs. Legalize it!
Mexican cartels moved into industry, agriculture, and human trafficking. Avocados, limes, and construction, for example.
You planning on legalizing those next? You can’t legislate violent thugs away, you could legalize their entire enterprise and they’ll still have a place because the state ceded the monopoly of violence to them.
Yes, they have diversified. However, they initially moved into legal business to invest and launder the money from their primary source of income, drugs. So let´s start weakening them by taking that away.
A lot of people, make a lot of money and would not want this.
Yes, that´s the point, to take that source of money away from them.
The problem is that the people in power benefit from that money.
Yes, corrupt elites are indeed part of the problem.