{"id":1798578,"date":"2023-01-07T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T03:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1798578"},"modified":"2023-01-07T22:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T03:19:36","slug":"mexicos-leftist-president-abandons-hugs-not-bullets-approach-to-crime-didnt-work-and-is-not-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexicos-leftist-president-abandons-hugs-not-bullets-approach-to-crime-didnt-work-and-is-not-viable\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Leftist President Abandons \u2018Hugs Not Bullets\u2019 Approach To Crime: \u2018Didn\u2019t Work And Is Not Viable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexicos-leftist-president-abandons-hugs-not-bullets-approach-to-crime-didnt-work-and-is-not-viable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1798578&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Mexico\u2019s leftist president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador<\/a> He seems to be abandoning his \u201chugs not bullets\u201d Approach to dealing with Mexico\u2019s violent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a> problem that is fueled by the country\u2019s notorious drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>AMLO\u2019s shift in thinking was made apparent this week when surreal images emerged of thousands of Mexican Large-scale operations by soldiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/3500-mexican-soldiers-execute-operation-to-arrest-el-chapos-son-dozens-killed-and-wounded-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operation<\/a> To capture Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, the son of notorious Sinaloa Drug cartel leader Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n Loera, who is also known as \u201cEl Chapo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The operation was so large In scale because the last time that the Mexican military captured Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n in 2019, they were forced to let him go after hundreds of heavily armed cartel gunmen threatened to murder families And overrun the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>AMLO\u2019s initial thinking reflected the thinking of some in the U.S. who believe that the war on drugs is ineffective and who do not want to escalate violent confrontations with criminal organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Ra\u00fal Ben\u00edtez, a security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told The Wall Street Journal that this latest action marks an end to that way of thinking by Mexico\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cL\u00f3pez Obrador is leaving behind that stuff about hugs, not bullets,\u201d he said. \u201cIt shows that such an anticrime strategy didn\u2019t work and is not viable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten soldiers were killed during the 3,500-man operation in addition to 19 members of the cartel with 35 soldiers sustaining gunshot injuries. Nearly two dozen cartel members were arrested, and numerous .50-caliber weapons were seized, along with dozens of rifles, and more than two dozen armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official told the Journal that while \u201cthings have improved \u2026 there is still a fair amount of suspicion on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Infamous Mexican cartel kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, who murdered a U.S. federal agent in 1985, was captured by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mexico-captures-drug-lord-rafael-caro-quintero-convicted-in-killing-of-dea-agent-11657919154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elite<\/a> Mexican military unit after being on the run for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaro Quintero helped a lot, this will help a lot,\u201d the U.S. official said.<\/p>\n<p>Quintero was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of DEA agent Enrique \u201cKiki\u201d Camarena, but was let out after 28 years because a judge in Mexico ruled that he should have been tried in a federal court, not a state court.<\/p>\n<p>When Mexican This isficials attempted to retry the case, Quintero went into hiding and remained on the run for almost 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>With a $20 million price tag on his head from the U.S. government, Quintero reportedly reassembled his drug cartel shortly after being let out of prison.<\/p>\n<p>However, a person who makes fentanyl for the drug cartels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mexico-boosts-military-presence-after-son-of-drug-kingpin-el-chapo-is-captured-11673021035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the Journal that this latest major arrest changes nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere won\u2019t be any more violence if the government doesn\u2019t go any further,\u201d He said. \u201cThe cartel will continue the same with minor adjustments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s leftist president Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador appears to be abandoning his \u201chugs not bullets\u201d approach to dealing with Mexico\u2019s violent crime problem that is fueled by the country\u2019s notorious drug cartels. 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