Both the Trump administration’s designation of the eight cartels as narco-terrorists, as well as Mexican President Sheinbaum’s response defending Mexico’s sovereignty, are good as far as they go. But neither go far enough to actually be effective in stopping the drug trade. What’s missing is summarized in three essential points of principle repeatedly presented by Lyndon LaRouche over decades of his pioneering role designing policies to defeat the international drug trade, including his ground-breaking bestseller, Dope, Inc.
1) The drug cartels are correctly designated as narco-terrorists. In fact, Lyndon LaRouche was the first to coin that phrase back in the mid-1980s.
2) A war against such narco-terrorism must be waged through an alliance of sovereign nation-states, much as occurred with the Allied victory over fascism in World War II. Any violation of national sovereignty will backfire, and only politically strengthen the hand of those running international narco-terrorism.
