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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Remember when Bill Barr abruptly let this dude go so that Mexico could purportedly take the first crack at prosecuting him? Guess what...
Mexico clears ex-defense secretary of all US accusations
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican prosecutors on Thursday declared completely unfounded the U.S. case against a former defense secretary arrested on drug charges in the United States and then returned...
apnews.com
10:57 PM · Jan 14, 2021
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-latin-america-arrests-drug-cartels-united-states-cef4c7cebe328463c8339d031afc0c31
brewens
(15,359 posts)Mexicans to help us out and round them up. Might take awhile to process everything and bring them back to the states.
But I hear the stories about Mexican prisons are bullshit. They are really quite nice.
LeftInTX
(34,015 posts)And now Obrabor is mad at twitter for banning Trump.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration is reaching out to other government to form a common front on the issue.
"I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue," López Obrador said. "Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression."
"How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?" he asked.
https://www.startribune.com/mexican-president-mounts-campaign-against-social-media-bans/600010649/
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Once he was elected he veered into exactly the kinds of things Trump did. He took money away from funds for children with cancer and he made friends with the drug traffickers. People are getting even poorer while he and his friends get richer. He loves Trump.
I hear this from people Ive known for decades who are friends. He was just elected two years ago and in Mexico Presidents serve for six years.
a la izquierda
(12,234 posts)For god's sake, in the 1970s, the chief of police of Mexico City was running a protection scheme for drug traffickers. This is nothing new.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Probably Dotards too.