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Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollution emerges
(www.theguardian.com)
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All of that... would not do so much damage if the goverment had taken steps to protect... us and itself.
The problems you mention are not of this presidential term (I think not even from this century?), so you are telling me there's nothing, absolutely nothing, we as a country could have done to fix those things... in more than 50 years?
Granted, maybe not completely fixed, but at least not moving backwards would be nice.
This gives me a perfect example, we can (and should) blame the backwards policies that are to come with president musk's bitch, but the mexican goverment decided to completely ban every kind of vape in the name of heatlh, giving its control back to the narcos (allegedly to the son of their cult leader and that's why they had to do it ASAP).
If someone steps on my hand, that's their fault; if I do my best to keep my hand under that foot and even push it harder down, that's on me.
You are extremely oversimplifying a very complex situation.
The Mexican government consists of self serving corrupt assholes but also loads of people who genuinely try to make the country better. Mexico was a third world nation which has grown up tremendously in the past decades, but it still has ways to go.
Could they have done more / better? Sure, of course.
Is the US government complicit in the shit show going on now in Mexico, with their policies and actions? Absofuckinglutely, and a big part too.
Just because the Mexican government could have done better doesn't mean the US government is off the hook
Examples of people inside the mexican goverment doing what you said? Because this sounds like when someone says inside the police it's fault of the bad apples, not all of them being bad but still the not bad apples do nothing to make things better.
Who said they are off the hook? I even acknowledged worse things to come due to the fucking cheeto, but you want to put a huge part of the blame on a country (USA) who didn't told our goverment to shit on us or to neglect every aspect of the daily life of the citizens.
But well, that's that, I know you just want to focus on blaming the USA instead of blaming those who spread their cheeks more than they should without actually working on what can we do to not get so fucked over.
Edit*: This means that yes, the USA fucked us, fucks us and will fuck us in the future, nobody denies that (but for some reason you say I do), but the mexican goverment trying their best to get us back into a third world country is not fault of the USA, that's our problem and only leaves us more open to be abused by any country, not just the USA.