𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣/𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗕𝗔𝗨𝗠 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣, 𝗖𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗝𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗭𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗔 𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗨𝗘

President Donald Trump, President Claudia Sheinbaum, Agent Jaime Zapata

Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum, has comported herself on the world stage, not as a subservient or underling, but as someone commanding the attention and respect normally accorded a world leader.

In the note above to soon-to-be President Trump, Sheinbaum responds forcefully to Trump's promised tariffs and border action with some requests of her own, insisting Trump take action to stop the illegal trafficking of weapons from the United States into her country.  

Sheinbaum also calls out "Asian countries"(China) who are shipping the "chemical precursors" used to produce drugs and "synthetic drugs" into Mexico.

We'll see what kind of relationship, if any, develops between Sheinbaum and Trump, but let's also touch on some history between the U.S. and Mexico with a Brownsville connection:

Those of us who frequently drive Coffee Port Rd., a main artery connecting Ruben Torres Blvd. with State Highway 48, realize that, just past the Palm Resaca Mobile Home Park, the road's name changes to Jaime Zapata Ave., in honor of the I.C.E. agent killed south of San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 2011.(Interestingly, Brownsville's City Commission listened to the complaint made by a couple dozen Winter Texans, not wanting the hassle of changing their addresses, letterheads, etc. allowing the road in front of their park to remain "Coffee Port," but, a few years later, ignored the wishes of citizens living on E. Fronton Street who didn't want their street renamed after an Anglo factory owner.)

But, getting back to Agent Zapata, it seems apparent that his murderers, members of a drug cartel named Los Zetas, received the automatic weapons used in the killing from a U.S. government program named "Fast & Furious," initiated during the Obama administration.(I've also read that "gun-walking," as it's called, was actually started in 2005 under the George W. Bush administration.)

The stupider-than-shit idea behind "Fast & Furious" was to simply "allow" guns to flow into Mexico so as to "identify" the big operators purchasing those guns.  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms(ATF) used "straw buyers," who bought the weapons legally, but then resold them to higher level traffickers and drug cartels. 

The "thinking" behind this program would be similar to allowing a free flow of fentanyl into the United States to track the drug king pins in our country. 

Yet, the supposed "tracking" of the weapons failed, partly because of a primitive tracking device(GPS) installed into each weapon that only had a battery life of two to three days.  The end result was that thousands of weapons were allowed to cross into Mexico without being tracked or traced.

Now, in 2025, the associated problems of drugs flowing into the United States from Mexico, the consumer demand for those drugs in the United States, and the constant flow of weapons from the U.S. into Mexico, all remain unresolved.