Sec. 102. Public diplomacy as a weapon to delegitimize cartels and disrupt criminal recruitment
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, in consultation with the United States Ambassador to Mexico and other diplomatic and consular posts in Mexico, as well as with the United States entertainment and media industries and private and government actors in Mexico, shall formulate and deploy a public relations campaign, the goal of which is to delegitimize and humiliate, in the Mexican and the United States social consciousness, Mexican transnational criminal organizations involved in illicit fentanyl trafficking, as well as to permanently disrupt and cripple such organizations’ ability to recruit new members.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Bureau of Global Public Affairs shall brief the relevant congressional committees on the implementation of this provision. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Bureau of Global Public Affairs shall submit to the relevant congressional committees a report detailing the implementation of subsection (a).