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.@elonmusk Speaking about Mexico without understanding its history is reckless. Doing so from a position of distance makes it even more so. When our President says that returning to the so-called “war on drugs” is not an option, she is referring to a very specific period under @FelipeCalderon . That strategy militarized the country without an effective intelligence framework, fractured criminal organizations, and triggered an explosion of violence. Between 2007 and 2011 homicides doubled. More than 120,000 lives were lost during that administration alone. It was branded as a “war,” but history revealed something even more serious: while that government claimed to be fighting cartels, its own Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, was later convicted in a United States federal court for conspiring with the Sinaloa Cartel and sentenced to decades in prison. That is not just policy failure. That is institutional corruption at the highest level. That period was not strength. It was simulation. Rejecting that model is not weakness. It is learning from evidence. Now, let’s speak with facts under President @Claudiashein: • Intentional homicides have been reduced by approximately 42 percent from peak levels. • More than 20,000 criminal suspects have been detained since she took office. • Fentanyl seizures and synthetic drug lab dismantlements have intensified nationwide. • According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, fentanyl seizures at the U.S. border have declined by nearly 45 percent during her administration. • Fentanyl-related overdose deaths in the United States have dropped by roughly half in the most recent reporting period. • 75 percent of the firearms seized from organized crime in Mexico originate illegally from the United States. • And just yesterday we took down the most wanted criminal in US. That is measurable enforcement within the rule of law. The drug crisis is binational. The United States remains the largest consumer market for synthetic drugs. Major distribution networks operate inside U.S. territory. Demand drives supply. Weapons flow south. Profits flow north. You are a man dedicated to building and accumulating enormous wealth. Your net worth is roughly equivalent to the annual salaries of more than three million average American workers. From that altitude, it may be difficult to fully grasp the human cost that violence imposes on ordinary families. Reducing a complex, shared crisis to a social media insinuation does not help solve it. Mexico has a President delivering measurable results while strengthening institutions instead of repeating a failed and corrupted war model. Your comments, intentionally or not, echo the narrative of those who governed Mexico poorly in the past and who would like to return to that period of violence, corruption, and simulation. History already judged that model. We chose a different path.