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Mexican president sticks to no-war approach and refuses to use force on drug cartels despite fighters showcasing their weapons in viral videos as murders hit new high of 17,439 for the first half of 2020
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stressed again he will not use force on drug cartels
- The announcement was made Monday as the leftist leader addressed videos that showed the heavy weaponry at the hands of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
- The cartel has marked several Mexican security figures on a death list, including Mexico City's police chief who survived an assassination attempt in June
- Government data released Monday showed there were 17,439 homicides in the first six months of 2020, an increase of 1.7 percent from the same period in 2019
- Murders of women went up 9.2 percent from 2019 to 489
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-22 |
