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Peter W Davies's avatar

Great article! Cheers.

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OriginalFlamingo's avatar

Been a fan of Ioan's books for a few years now and just discovered and subscribed to this Substack. I had high expectations and still came out impressed.

This is hands-down the best article I've read about amlo's security policy. Comprehensive, nonpartisan, thorough, direct.

It's been fascinating to me seeing the shift in amlo's doctrine, it seems like what started as "Abrazos, no balazos" turned into "abrazos, a veces balazos" and is now in the "abrazos, también balazos" phase.

I think any serious attempt at combating the narco problem must be two-pronged: the abrazos side must ensure our youth has real chances at quality education and dignified work ie. livable wages and work/life balance. The bitter balazos aspect should be a strong military deterrence policy aimed at keeping the population safe from extortion, human trafficking, and collateral damage from cartel in-fighting.

While our military is far from perfect and certainly not immune to corruption, I believe it is our most solid gov't institution and currently the best tool for the job (im talking about both SEDENA and SEMAR). In online circles, this is a controversial opinion, but as the article says, most people are in favor of military prescence in our streets.

Cheers and good day, everybody.

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