Leading senators called on the U.S. to declare a war on Mexican cartels, saying Wednesday that the killing of two Americans at the gangs' hands should earn a response by the full might of the U.S. military.
Warning of rampant crime and kidnapping, the State Department has issued its highest travel advisory for six Mexican states.
The State Department’s countrywide travel advisory also warns of widespread violent crime, including homicide, kidnapping, carjacking and robbery throughoutThose risks became all too real for the four U.S. citizens who were kidnapped at a Mexican border town by a local drug cartel last week.Their minivan was caught in the crossfire from an apparent battle between rival gangs on the streets of Matamoros, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
He said he would revive the plan to designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and pledged to “get full cooperation” from neighboring countries in dismantling the cartels “or else fully expose the bribes and corruption that protect these criminal networks.”Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has assailed those pushing for U.S. military intervention in his country.was unfazed by the Mexican president’s attacks.
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