It appears that may be a special forces are heading to fight the drug cartels in Mexico

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, today it was revealed that the Trump administration maybe
looking at using special forces down in Mexico to fight
the drug cartels.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's take a look at this.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
The US spent over fifteen billion dollars on anti cartel
efforts since two thousand and eight through initiatives like the
Merita the Merida initiative, but these have yielded mixed results.
Cartels like the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco excuse me,
have grown.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
More violent and diversified. Now. To be fair, Mexico has.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Ramped up its own crackdowns, deploying ten thousand troops to
the border earlier in the year. Their homicide rate has
actually dropped. In twenty sixteen, I think it was about
thirty five thousand homicides in a year. So far this
year they have about eighteen thousand with only two months
to go, so it's actually dropped quite a.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Bit even in the last few years.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's about almost equivalent to the US, which is still
really high since their.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Population is about forty percent.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Back to the story, operational structures there's of the breakdown.
Forces involved include elite units from the Joint Special Operations
Command JSOXX, such as Delta Force SEL Team six would
handle ground strikes. CIA officers would provide intelligence support, including
real time targeting. The mission would fall into Title fifty,
governed by US intelligence laws rather than traditional military rules.

(01:24):
This allows for covert ops with fewer congressional oversight requirements
and greater secrecies, similar to what the CIA drone programs
were in Yemen and Somalia. The tactics will emphasize on
precision strikes, drone attacks on drug labs, warehouses, and leadership convoys,
rather than large scale invasions. Ground troops were likely inserted
via helicopter or small teams for kill capture raids, minimizing footprint.

(01:46):
Official stress it's targeted at cartel's only, not the Mexican government.
Early stage training has begun a US basis, focusing on
urban warfare, cartel evasion tactics, and cross border logistics. The deployment, though, however,
it could take months, pending White House approval and potential
Mexico buy in. My guess is they're probably already have it.

(02:07):
They're just delaying it. We don't really know. We went
on even know until weeks after the first deployment for
a targets a high value of individuals, cartel leaders like
Elmncho or Cinaloa remnants, infrastructure, fetanol labs, and Cineloa metre
con smuggling routes. This aligns with a secret list of
cartel figures greenlit for lethal action, and a classified DOJ memo.

(02:30):
The Plan Echo is a secret directive directive for the
administration signed in the summer else authorizing military action against
cartels in Latin America. It also follows the April twenty
twenty five designation of eight cartels as FTOS foreign terrorist organizations.
And this isn't isolated. It's part of a multi front
US war in cartels. February, Mexico deployed twenty five hundred

(02:53):
troops to the border amid the Trump's tariffs. Trump floats
drone strikes publicly, which we've seen already. Trump directs the
Pentagon to par ops against FTO designated cartels. October US
strikes fifteen plus cartel boats in the Pacific, and the
administration has also tied cartels to Venezuela's Madua regime, blurring

(03:14):
lines between drug ops and geopolitics. That's it for now.
We'll see how this story evolves over time