April 22, 2026, Following a fatal crash in Chihuahua on April 19, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson released a public statement mourning the tragic loss of “two U.S. Embassy personnel” alongside two Mexican provincial police. The next day, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum insisted that “there are no joint operations on land or in the air” and that U.S.-Mexico Drug War collaboration strictly adheres to the Mexican constitution.

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Of course, the capitalist state regularly uses the concept of “classified information” to protect its monopoly on violence. It demands that the public rely on “official sources” to understand history, knowing full well that those official sources are actively scrubbed of any forensic evidence that would expose the state’s illegal, neocolonial violations of foreign sovereignty.

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The two U.S. embassy officials and two Mexican officials died in a fatal automobile accident when their car crashed on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez highway in northern Mexico. The vehicle reportedly skidded off the road, fell down a ravine, and exploded. The crash occurred on the heels of a coordination meeting between the two CIA agents and the personnel from Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI) who had carried out a drug raid on the same day.

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To explain why the Americans were in the state of Chihuahua, Chihuahua’s attorney general, Cesar Jáuregui Moreno, told the press that they were doing “training work” about “eight to nine hours away” from the location of the drug raid operation. He also told the press that about 40 Mexican agents participated in the drug bust, indicating that the moment the Mexican force finished dismantling the lab, the U.S. agents immediately traveled to hold a covert debriefing meeting with them, a coordination effort that was only exposed because of the fatal car crash that killed them on their return journey.

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Speaking to the Mexican newspaper El Universal, Mr. Moreno also said that the raid on the drug lab in the municipality of Morelos took about three months to plan.

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The U.S. state systematically integrates the repressive apparatuses of dependent nations through such mechanisms as the School of Americas (now WHINSEC) and the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center to guarantee that participating foreign governments function as heavily armed proxies, enforcing total economic and political domination by U.S. imperialism. These domestic U.S. institutions serve as central processing facilities designed to filter and program the military and police personnel of dependent nations. They typically function by extracting these actors from their local contexts and processing them through the curriculum explicitly defining the operational tactics of state terror, including psychological warfare, extortion, coercion, false imprisonment, and executions.

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In the spring of last year, a communication with ZeroHedge which was subsequently reported in April 18 issue of Sri Lanka Guardian, CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis announced the formation of the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center as a new mechanism to operate “upstream, beyond the U.S. border,” merging the CIA’s “counternarcotics division with its Western Hemisphere teams.” He elaborated that the operations “may remain covert due to their sensitive nature,” and the U.S. is weighing an “unprecedented escalation” of tactics, including the “potential use of drone strikes.”

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Simultaneously, the Mexican federal government began committing an immense amount of manpower to execute an escalated anti-narcotics mandate, including the deployment of 10,000 troops to its northern border, specifically tasked with inspecting vehicles heading into the United States. In 2025, the Mexican government also bypassed typical extradition protocols to execute the “fast-track expulsion” of 55 individuals to the United States.

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This follows a brief, intense clash of international class interests when, five years ago, Mexico attempted to use its legislative superstructure to reclaim sovereignty and protect itself from imperialist overreach. Following the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA’s) unilateral 2020 arrest of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos in Los Angeles, Mexico’s Congress passed a National Security Law stripping foreign agents (the DEA) of diplomatic immunity and heavily restricting their operations. However, the U.S. state simply regrouped and eventually utilized enough economic force, including tariffs, to crush this legal resistance and restore its asymmetrical dominance.

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Today, the U.S. bourgeois state is using the drug war as a pretext to project its coercive apparatus – including funding, training, and running covert intelligence operations with local Mexican state police, operating surveillance drones, and considering potential lethal strike capabilities – deep into sovereign foreign territory, treating neighboring nations not as sovereign equals, but operational battlespaces.

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The chauvinist arrogance of monopoly capital is such that the U.S. war machine views the laws of Mexico not as binding boundaries, but as minor administrative hurdles to be circumvented through coercion and covert subversion. We must understand this not as charitable international aid to peoples needing to be “mentored in the ways of civilization and democracy” as advertised, but as the mechanism to guarantee targeted foreign governments function as heavily armed proxies, enforcing total economic and political domination by U.S. imperialism.

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The immediate action program of the Democratic Foreign Policy demands the total dismantling of “military and technical cooperation agreements” that U.S. imperialism concludes to maintain its influence over the developing states. It demands the closure of all U.S. military bases, CIA, and DEA agencies. It demands the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops stationed abroad, the termination of all aggressive military pacts, and the absolute cessation of U.S. interference in sovereign Latin American territory.