Who knew they only needed to be threatened a little bit? lol
To make a performative bust? It will probably slightly disrupt the market for about 10 minutes. California alone seized 30 tonnes last year and that will just be a fraction of what gets through.
Threaten them enough and they might shut down the drug cartels.
The only thing thing that will stop the drug producers and distributors is if you lot (and to a lesser degree, us lot) stop hoovering all the drugs up. Everything else is bullshit.
As the not very nice man in Sicario said:
until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that shit, order's the best we can hope for.
Don't blame Mexico for your bad habits - the USA created the drug trade, not them. You just outsourced it to poorer countries.
Also Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced it was increasing the reward for the top leader of another cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, from $10 million to $15 million.
Why, what is the fucking point? This shit drives me mad, they've been doing it for decades and the drugs have got cheaper, purer and more available. The violence just increases. There isn't even any such thing as a "cartel" - they are just organised crime gangs, like anywhere else.