What does "the ends justify the means" mean? --- In this article, when the author says "the police cannot operate legally in foreign countries", I would say nor can the military or DEA investigators, even if they have "permission from some authority". That is why many Mexicans and our president are against the DEA's past actions in Mexico to stop drugs or bring weapons into Mexico for the same purpose. Many of these weapons were proven to have been used in crimes as well as to arm the cartels. In a recent article published by the NBC News, according to US authorities, “70 percent of firearms reported to have been recovered in Mexico from 2014 through 2018 and submitted for tracing were U.S. sourced”. And, according to the Mexican government, “at least 17,000 homicides in 2019 were linked to arms trafficking”. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/not-normal-big-flow-us-arms-mexico-cant-denied-author-says-rcna1700 2021 [Accesed 30/11/21]

Despite this, the U.S. still wants to sell us the idea with sentences like “to help to modernize the country’s military”, as shows this article from Reuters, published last August:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/mexico-near-deal-buy-sig-sauer-automatic-rifles-us-sources-2021-08-03/ [Accesed 30/11/21]

Source author: Blanca Jimenez bjimenez@sre.gob.mx