WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez publishing an editorial urging Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to accept the United States’ offer of help to secure the country. On Tuesday, November 5, a massacre of nine people, women and children, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua highlighted the increasing stranglehold of Mexican cartels in parts of the country and the nation’s inability to combat them.
Congressman Gonzalez outlines the need for the Mexican government to accept U.S. assistance and throws the gauntlet at the Mexican political establishment to summon the political will to create a collaborative national security strategy. He addresses that it is only a matter of time before the violence in the Mexico has a direct effect on the United States.
The complete editorial can be found below.
