{"id":146343,"date":"2023-08-25T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146343"},"modified":"2023-08-24T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T01:03:57","slug":"desantis-wants-to-send-troops-to-deal-with-mexican-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146343","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis wants to send troops to deal with Mexican cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-144320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Politician-clowns-in-Congress-02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If he becomes the next president of the United States, DeSantis would go after the cartels from day one. His justification includes the American citizens being killed as well as drugs being sent to the US. Other Republican candidates argued that such actions require Mexico&#8217;s consent and cooperation and that the U.S. military should work with the Mexican military to accomplish these activities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From The Hill:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DeSantis joins several other Republican presidential candidates, including former President Trump, the front-runner in the race, who have backed the idea of military action to take out the cartels.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he would support limited military action, such as intelligence gathering, against the cartels. But only if Mexico could be looped into the effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cooperation makes a difference,&#8221; Hutchinson said. &#8220;We cannot be successful going against the cartel unless we bring in Mexico as a partner. We have to use economic pressure to accomplish that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, former Vice President Mike Pence also backed partnering with the Mexican army to &#8220;hunt down and destroy the cartels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Experts, however, say any military action could end up backfiring, straining relations with Mexico and other Latin American countries and likely failing to stop a shadowy network of cartel operations.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) sharply criticized the GOP candidates for raising the possibility of military action in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republicans cheering for war with Mexico are taking the United States down a dark, dangerous path,&#8221; he wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hill provides the balance of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/4168265-desantis-pledges-to-send-us-military-to-fight-cartels-on-day-one\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he becomes the next president of the United States, DeSantis would go after the cartels &hellip; <a title=\"DeSantis wants to send troops to deal with Mexican cartels\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146343\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DeSantis wants to send troops to deal with Mexican cartels<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,20,387,84,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-illegal-immigrants","category-international-affairs","category-military-issues","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}