Former president and Republican presidential candidate of the United States, Donald Trump, plans to send his country's special forces to Mexico to assassinate drug traffickers if he is elected to govern the country again in November of this year.
According to the American magazine Rolling Stone, Trump has expressed the idea of sending these forces “with or without the support of the Mexican government” to his campaign advisors.
These special forces would aim to kill the leaders of the main drug cartels in the neighboring country, the US media indicated.
One of Trump's campaign promises is to declare war on the Mexican cartels.
On his campaign page, the former president details the measures he will take to achieve this goal, including ordering the Pentagon to “appropriately use special forces and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on leadership, infrastructure and cartel operations.”
In turn, the Republican proposes designating drug trafficking groups as terrorists, an idea that has also been proposed by legislators from his party in Congress.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has rejected this latest proposal, accusing it of being a propaganda strategy by conservative politicians.
The Trump campaign, which has a strong anti-immigrant component, has also linked Joe Biden's handling of the border to the increase in deaths from opioids, especially fentanyl, in the United States.
