The Situation in Mexico

[Puma]

We've also taken down one of the most sinister cartel kingpins of all." He's done the meme!

Trump may have used his secret weapon, called the "discombobulator" to take down El Mencho.

 

[mabar]

Trump right now can't have another criticism about intervening in another country specially in the midterms approaching.

What might means what Trump said yesterday?

TRUMP: 'Securing US dominance in Western Hemisphere

Including LARGE parts of Mexico

FENTANYL IS A METHOD OF MASS DESTRUCTION'

Then again a 'shoot first ask later' polic

As it happended in the so-called war on drugs during the presidency of Calderón years back.

 

[Puma]

Mexico sends second humanitarian aid package to Cuba with food

The Mexican Foreign Ministry announced the shipment of a second humanitarian aid package to Cuba, containing nearly 1,200 tons of food, amid the economic crisis on the island, which has been exacerbated by the US energy blockade.

Meanwhile Cuba fires on suspicious vessel

Cuban Embassy in US

Note from the Ministry of the Interior:

On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States, with registration number FL7726SH, approached up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones, Corralillo municipality, Villa Clara province.

When a surface unit of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, carrying five service members, approached the vessel for identification, the crew of the violating speedboat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, resulting in the injury of the commander of the Cuban vessel.

As a consequence of the confrontation, as of the time of this report, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six were injured. The injured individuals were evacuated and received medical assistance.

In the face of current challenges, Cuba reaffirms its determination to protect its territorial waters, based on the principle that national defense is a fundamental pillar of the Cuban State in safeguarding its sovereignty and ensuring stability in the region.

Investigations by the competent authorities continue in order to fully clarify the events.

 

[Ruth]

Are expat Americans being held hostage by an operation funded and supplied by their own Government as well as Israel? Only for these same two governments to complain about the very situation they create? My feeling is, yes! Of course! It has been that way for at least 1/2 a century. It's time the general public woke up to it!
(video 23.00 minutes approx)

 

[Puma]

Why is the Bukele model not applicable in Mexico?​

Following the killing of the CJNG leader in Jalisco, the Mexican right wing demanded that the authorities apply the Bukele model in Mexico and cited a statement by the President of El Salvador as justification.(Although calling him president is a bit much; he's more of a gangster, a dictator, a little dictator)

Bukele said and reposted on X, "There is no state incapable of fighting crime; if it does not do so, it is because it has ceased to exercise its authority."

One person who supported the idea was Eduardo Verástegui, a far-right Trump supporter, who posted the following on X along with a photo of gang members in prison.​

"If it were up to me, this would be the model for Mexico." -​

What is the Bukele Model? Grok summarizes it as follows:
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Essentially, it combines several key elements:​

●Permanent state of emergency (or prolonged state of emergency): Since March 2022, following a wave of murders, constitutional guarantees such as the right to immediate defense, long-term detention without a warrant, collective trials, and other human rights restrictions have been suspended.​

● Mass arrests: More than 80,000–85,000 people (many linked to gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18) have been arrested in large-scale operations, often without clear individual evidence.​

● Militarization of security: Intensive use of the army and police on the streets, construction of mega-prisons such as the CECOT (Terrorism Confinement Center) to house thousands of detainees.​

●Drastic reduction in violence: Official homicide rates fell dramatically (from ~38 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019 to historic lows, around 2–3 in recent years), making El Salvador one of the safest countries in the region in terms of murders.​

●Concentration of power: Almost total control of the branches of government (legislative, judicial, and executive), including the removal of opposition judges and prosecutors and the enabling of presidential reelection (even indefinite in practice).​

● Highly effective digital communication: Bukele uses social media (especially X/Twitter) extensively and directly to communicate, ridicule opponents, showcase results, and maintain an image of a "cool dictator" or modern millennial leader. This generates very high popular approval ratings (often >80–90%).​

I asked journalist Eric Gutierrez , editor of "Sin Línea", for his opinion on the Bukele Model for Mexico:

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The so-called Bukele method is not a security policy; it is a state of emergency turned into a form of government. It works by systematically suspending rights, carrying out mass arrests without due process, and concentrating power in a way that dismantles institutional checks and balances.​

In simple terms, it is an arbitrary, authoritarian, and openly anti-democratic model that replaces the law with the will of the executive branch.​

Comment: For Mexico, it would be like returning to the perfect dictatorship of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country for more than 70 years.
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Yes, it has reduced homicides in El Salvador, but it has done so at the cost of imprisoning tens of thousands of people without sufficient evidence, criminalizing poverty, and normalizing the logic of "arrest first, investigate later." That is not justice; it is the administration of fear.​

A state that can imprison without controls is not strong, it is dangerous. Attempting to import this model to Mexico is technically and politically absurd. The scale is brutally different. Replicating this model would mean arresting more than a million people, the prison system would collapse immediately, prosecutors would be overwhelmed, and the margin for abuse would be enormous. Furthermore, here we are not dealing with local gangs but transnational cartels with territorial economic power and high-level weaponry.​

Comment: Brutally different

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It is not the same to dismantle gangs as it is to try to contain criminal economies embedded in global chains. Worse still, applying a permanent state of emergency in Mexico would mean dynamiting the constitution, eroding fundamental rights, and opening the door to irreversible authoritarianism in a country with historical institutional weaknesses. That would not bring order but rather more corruption, more selective impunity, and more discretionary power.​

El Salvador's success is, at best, a short-term containment sustained by force. Mexico needs something else: intelligence, institutional strengthening, and a strategy that attacks the finances of crime. Anything else is punitive propaganda, and propaganda, by definition, does not build peace. Best regards.​

Bukele is not only a dictator, he is also a gangster and a Trumpist bootlicker, just like Milei in Argentina. Bukele has a long tail, and this is just one example:
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THE DAY BUKELE WANTED TO PAY THE CJNG FOR KIDNAPPING A MARA SALVATRUCHA LEADER​

Before the 2024 elections, an investigation by El Faro uncovered a failed conspiracy by Nayib Bukele's (@nayibbukele) government to kidnap a Mara Salvatrucha leader in Mexico with the support of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in exchange for a payment of one million dollars.​

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026407627375497408

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