[nwienert]

The US is a very rich country that is very close by, of course the drugs flow there. To single out the US is like blaming trees for forest fires. They're part of the the problem, but it makes it seem like you just want an easy thing to point a finger at, whereas the grim reality is that it's complex and theres a ton of players and plans that'd need to go into motion to ever improve things.

[joe_the_user]

The US isn't just some incidental drug market with the illegality of drugs being a fact of nature. US policy began the "war on drugs" and US policy forces other nations to continue it. Drug war policies further have accelerated US consumption and the violence of the cartels ("gun walking" etc, etc).

[ahzhou]

I agree it's complex.

I'm not blaming the US. Like most problems in the world, it's a result of circumstance, not because there's a bad guy. It's not like there's a magical solution to market forces applying to drugs.

My point is more that the geopolitical reasons for the cartel's existence means that Mexico has much less agency in solving it than they would like.