As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.

The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.

May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”

  • diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But you’re still giving them concessions while the population pays it just because you haven’t been able to deal with them properly

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      1 year ago

      You never will. People want drugs. Someone will always provide them. Might as well have some regulations.

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      1 year ago

      Ending the black market the cartel thrives in is the proper way to deal with them. Waging an endless ‘war’ on a vague concept that makes the most vicious cartel leaders fabulously wealthy is clearly not.

      Now is there a particular reason that you’re playing devil’s strawman all over this thread?