🔗 Connecting the Dots: From Baja to Texistepec
This tragedy didn’t happen in isolation.
The murder of Lara Gutiérrez comes just days after the Trump administration revoked the U.S. visas of Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda and her husband Carlos Torres Torres—both high-ranking members of the same Morena party as Lara and Sheinbaum.
Intelligence officials have suggested the moves stem from concerns over cartel proximity and national security risks.
These dots are not difficult to connect. When your country is burying elected officials faster than it can swear them in—and when your ruling party has members getting shot or barred from the U.S.—that’s not politics anymore. That’s war by another name.
🪖 Why the Cartels Keep Winning
President Sheinbaum has repeatedly rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal to send U.S. military personnel into Mexico to dismantle cartel operations—insisting Mexico’s sovereignty must be respected.
But sovereignty means nothing when bullets reign.
Lara’s murder happened in the open, on camera, with impunity. And while Mexico postures about independence, the U.S. continues to absorb the fallout: drug trafficking, human smuggling, cross-border violence, and, increasingly, the strategic chaos of political destabilization.
“This is why we need troops in Mexico,” Trump said in a recent campaign rally.
“They won’t stop killing until we make them stop.”
