Summary
US companies exported 1.4 million tons of hazardous waste in 2022, nearly half of which went to Monterrey, Mexico.
Toxic substances from Zinc Nacional, a local recycling plant processing US steel dust, have polluted nearby homes, schools, and soil with lead, arsenic, and cadmium, exceeding US health thresholds by hundreds of times.
Experts call the waste trade “toxic colonialism,” citing Mexico’s weaker regulations and enforcement.
Residents report health issues, while the company claims compliance. Mexican authorities are investigating amid calls for stricter oversight and accountability.
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.