Chapter 688: Border War
took Wang Dong and Luo Qing to "visit" the Great Wall of America and Mexico, and Gust took them to a small hotel.
Guster is not Mexican and is from Haiti.
As a full-time employee of D&F, Gust can be said to have a good life, and in terms of income, it is already very good.
Of course, he also cherishes this job very much.
Because of this job, he was able to send his three sons to study in Spain, prepare a rich dowry for his two daughters, and let the whole family live a prosperous life.
Of course, he also has a lot of respect for Wang Dong and Luo Qing, even if it was the first time he met the founder of D&F.
By the time I got to the hotel, it was already late at night.
In fact, when I came to Juarez, it was already night.
The city is not at all peaceful, and even more so at night.
Gust went to get some food and got some clean bedding.
Hearing the gunshots coming from outside, Wang Dong and Luo Qing were not in a very good mood.
It's not that I'm afraid of anything, but I feel that this is a place of right and wrong.
"This place wasn't like this before."
"When was the last time you came?"
"About six years ago."
Gust smiled and said, "It has changed a long time ago, since the United States began to build the Great Wall of the border, the whole of Juarez, the whole of Mexico has changed. ”
"Mexico?"
"I'm not Mexican, but my grandmother is from Mexico."
Next, Gust gave a general account of what has happened in the past few years.
Mexicans have long regarded the United States as a paradise, and both rich and poor people want to be citizens of the United States.
Historically, Mexico has even tried to incorporate into the United States, only to be rejected by the United States.
For the United States, border control has become a huge problem.
If it's just immigrants from Mexico, it's not a big problem.
However, along with the immigrants, there are also drug dealers and drugs, as well as the various criminal activities caused by them, and the social problems caused by them.
It was under the stimulus of these factors that the United States began to build the Great Wall of the Border.
The Great Wall revolutionized the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
How so?
Until then, Mexico will be able to make peace with the United States, at least with some modest benefits from trading with the United States.
In fact, it is indeed a trivial benefit.
For the most part, Americans have never treated their southern neighbors as equals.
Here's a very simple example.
In order to protect the country's less than 100,000 fruit growers, the United States has put forward extremely strict requirements when importing tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables from Mexico, and even has size restrictions, resulting in a large number of tomatoes that do not have quality problems, but are not large enough to rot in the ground.
What maintains the relationship between the two countries is, in fact, people-to-people exchanges.
After the construction of the Great Wall of the border, even the movement of people has been restricted, how can the relationship between the two countries be maintained?
In fact, this is tantamount to pushing ordinary Mexicans against the United States.
It is the drug cartels that benefit.
Of course, the very existence of the Great Wall of the Border poses a threat to drug cartels.
Initially, drug cartels also tried to open up delivery channels by other means, such as bribing border police, or to keep the original transportation channels.
It's just that after the National Guard was stationed, the road was blocked.
What to do?
The drug cartels will certainly not give in, because after the drug transportation channels are blocked, the drugs in the United States will become more expensive, which also means that the drug trafficking will be more profitable, so the drug cartels are willing to pay a greater price to deliver the drugs that addicts are looking forward to in the United States.
The results are obvious.
Two years ago, drug cartels launched their first organized offensive against U.S. border guards, the National Guard guarding the Great Wall of the border.
In that fierce battle, which lasted for several days, the drug cartels were severely damaged.
In the end, the United States even dispatched fighter jets to bomb drug trafficking camps in Mexico, and finally stifled the offensive momentum of the drug trafficking syndicates.
It was that operation that caused the situation in Juárez to get completely out of control.
Why?
The combat operations of the US military in Mexico have resulted in a large number of innocent civilian casualties, and the Mexican authorities, especially the Mexican army, have not been able to do anything.
Since then, drug cartels have taken aim at the Mexican military police.
After more than a year of fighting, the Mexican authorities announced the evacuation of all military and police from Juárez, abandoning the city.
Why?
During the more than a year of fighting, thousands of police officers were killed and hundreds of soldiers were killed or wounded.
According to a communiqué issued by the Mexican authorities, the security operation in Juárez has caused direct losses of hundreds of billions of dollars in Mexico.
Although fighting the country's drug cartels, the Mexican authorities believe that the United States bears some responsibility.
There is also a good reason for this, and it is the cross-border actions of the US military that have led to this war.
Obviously, the US authorities will certainly not pay for the civil unrest in Mexico.
It is for this reason that the Mexican authorities decided to abandon Juárez and give the Americans a headache.
With the withdrawal of the military and police, Juárez fell into the hands of the drug cartels, who became the main base of the cartel in northern Mexico.
Almost every day, drug traffickers are exchanging fire with U.S. border guards, or causing trouble for Americans.
When enough forces have been amassed to deliver drugs to the United States, to be precise, drug cartels will launch large-scale attacks.
Of course, all the operations were under cover for the delivery of drugs.
Now, Juarez has really become a problem for the Americans.
Why?
Although the Mexican authorities let it go, Juárez is still a Mexican city de jure and is not subject to U.S. law.
After several large-scale actions, the US Congress passed a restrictive bill.
That is, any cross-border operation involving Juárez would need to be approved by a special committee of Congress, and the president would not have the authority to issue orders for cross-border operations.
In fact, crossing the border is a secondary issue, and the key is that the cost is too high.
For more than a year, the United States has burned hundreds of billions of dollars here, spending tens of billions of dollars on cross-border military operations alone.
In addition, hundreds of military and police officers were killed or wounded.
You know, this is a war happening around the United States.
The war continues, and no one knows when it will end, and perhaps never will.
As the war drags on, it is certainly not just the residents of Juárez who hold a grudge against the United States, but the nearly 200 million Mexicans.
Arguably, Juárez is the most dangerous place in the world.
However, it is also the closest place to the United States, and the only place where you can cross the Great Wall of the border and enter the United States.