In 1860 England went to war with China, becuae China refused british ships importing Opium to Shanghai. It was the first of the Opium wars that went one for another 40 years until China was forced to hand over Hong Kong as settlement for refusing England rights to sell Heroin inside mainland China.
In Veitnam Heroin trafficking was supervised and managed by the CIA to fund covert operations to avoid congressional Oversight.
In the mid 1980′s the Reagan Adminstration was caught running cocaine from central america and exchanging it for guns to give the Contra’s. It was using the drug trade to circumvent Congressional oversight.
In Afghanistan the CIA supported drug lords both during the Russian invasion and again today. profits are split with them to fund covert operations of US govt.
The point Mexico is making ; the US Govt is implicitly involved with south american drug lords, using profits to establish slush funds and covert operations. Govts around the world have been involved in world drug trade for hundreds of years, it is intellectually dishonest to believe US govt agencies have suddenly abandoned their long history with drug trafficking.
Every time a US legislator stands up and rants about the drug trade, it makes them appear as fools to the rest of the world that knows full well the extent US govt supports trafficking and sale of drugs.
