… the New York Times? Really?
As one might imagine, the Gray Lady does its best to split credit between Donald Trump and Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum. That tends to ignore the fact that Trump has had to bully Sheinbaum into action against the cartels through tariff threats, including at the very moment. However, even their own coverage concedes that the cartels understand where the juice has been squeezed and by whom:
One cartel leader says he’s trying to figure out how to protect his family in case the American military strikes inside Mexico. Another says he’s already gone into hiding, rarely leaving his home. Two young men who produce fentanyl for the cartel say they have shut down all their drug labs.
A barrage of arrests, drug seizures and lab busts by the Mexican authorities in recent months has struck the behemoth Sinaloa Cartel, according…
