{"id":4936,"date":"2025-01-15T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-prefers-working-with-mexico-not-bombing-it-to-get-cartels\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:04:11","slug":"rubio-prefers-working-with-mexico-not-bombing-it-to-get-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-prefers-working-with-mexico-not-bombing-it-to-get-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio prefers working with Mexico, not bombing it, to get cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio didn\u2019t rule out designating Mexcian drug cartels as terrorist organizations during his Senate confirmation hearing, previewing a sharp crackdown by the incoming Trump administration on threats to the U.S. southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sophisticated transnational terroristic organizations have operational and functional control over huge swathes of areas that border the United States of America,\u201d he told senators Wednesday. \u201cIt is important for us not just to go after these groups but identify them and call them for what they are and that is terroristic in their nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said he\u2019d prefer to work collaboratively with Mexico instead of turning to military force to root out drug cartels. But he didn\u2019t rule out the possibility of the latter as an option President-elect Donald Trump may choose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is someone that never publicly discusses his options and leaves himself the flexibility to act,\u201d said Rubio, a senator from Florida. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot we can and we\u2019ll continue to do in close partnership with our allies in Mexico. I think there\u2019s more they can do as well to confront this challenge, and my preference would be, from the Department of State\u2019s perspective, my preference would be that we can work with the Mexicans on this issue cooperatively, because it is impacting their nation as much as ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio didn\u2019t rule out designating Mexcian drug cartels as terrorist organizations during his Senate confirmation hearing, previewing a sharp crackdown by the incoming Trump administration on threats to the U.S. southern border. \u201cThese sophisticated transnational terroristic organizations have operational and functional control over huge swathes of areas that border the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}