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Mexico - March 2025
Trump goes after drug cartels
On 19 February the US State Department announced a list of six Mexican cartels to be designated as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs), as US President Donald Trump made good on a key campaign promise. The designation has raised concerns in Mexico that it could be used as a potential justification for US military intervention. Although the designation does not expressly allow the US government to carry out military strikes in Mexico without its consent, it undoubtedly signals a hardening of US rhetoric towards Mexico’s cartels and will pile more pressure on President Claudia Sheinbaum to prove her government is taking the fight against them seriously.
