The Spanish conquistadors brought the first Africans to New Spain, later to become Mexico, as part of the global slave trade. But the history of Africans in Mexico is very different from the history of Africans and their descendants in the US.
In Sinaloa, a new surge of cartel violence has claimed the lives of hundreds of people — and claimed the attention of US leaders and pundits. They scoff at the approach taken by presidents AMLO and Sheinbaum of “hugs, not bullets.” The US approach is to fight fire with fire.
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