The vital importance of President Donald Trump‘s strategy to confront Mexican drug cartels was bloodily underlined this week after two separate incidents, barely 24 hours apart, showed that Mexico is a nation in crisis, and that the drug cartels hold the strategic initiative. As a nation, we must do more to stop Americans who buy the drugs that fuel the bloody misery in Mexico, but we also must escalate against the cartels responsible for the misery they inflict on both sides of the border.
Fortunately, the Trump administration has abandoned the American tolerance of the past. Last week, the State Department revoked the visas of numerous high-level Mexican officials who were complicit in the drug trade. The Washington Examiner understands that these actions were predicated on
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