{"id":213,"date":"2024-12-31T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2024\/12\/31\/trumps-plans-to-label-mexicos-cartels-terrorists-stokes-concern-semafor\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:43:11","slug":"trumps-plans-to-label-mexicos-cartels-terrorists-stokes-concern-semafor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2024\/12\/31\/trumps-plans-to-label-mexicos-cartels-terrorists-stokes-concern-semafor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s plans to label Mexico\u2019s cartels \u2018terrorists\u2019 stokes concern &#8211; Semafor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plans to label Mexican drug cartels \u201cterrorist organizations\u201d could open the door to US military attacks on Mexican soil, analysts warned.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that he would \u201cimmediately\u201d make the designation upon becoming president, putting cartels alongside organizations such as Hamas and Boko Haram. Doing so would give authorities powers to stop money flows to cartels, but also would \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2024-12-24\/the-red-line-that-trump-wants-to-cross-in-the-fight-against-mexican-cartels.html\" rel=\"no-referrer\">provide the legal framework<\/a>\u201d to permit unilateral attacks in Mexico, one academic told El Pa\u00eds, adding he would be unsurprised to learn about \u201can American missile hitting a methamphetamine laboratory in Badiraguato.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned against the plan, saying \u201cMexico is a free, sovereign, independent country and we do not accept interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s plans to label Mexican drug cartels \u201cterrorist organizations\u201d could open the door to US military attacks on Mexican soil, analysts warned. Trump said that he would \u201cimmediately\u201d make the designation upon becoming president, putting cartels alongside organizations such as Hamas and Boko Haram. Doing so would give authorities powers to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}