Colombia, for decades the world’s number one producer of cocaine, should look at how the mafia works in Italy to understand its own drug cartels, while Mexico should look at Colombia, said one of the most knowledgeable analysts of the drug trade in Colombia, sociologist Ricardo Vargas, a researcher associated with the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute.... Read more
Mexico is urgently in need of a new strategy. The militarisation of the drug war since President Felipe Calderón took office in late 2006 has resulted in more than 90,000 people killed, some 10,000 missing and at least 250,000 forced to flee their homes, according to human rights groups and press reports.... Read more
Desde Richard Nixon, pocos presidentes en el mundo han adoptado contal convicción la bandera de la guerra contra las drogas. Pocosgobiernos han aceptado los costos sociales implicados o han invertidolos recursos estratosféricos en una lucha cuya ética y efectividad hoysu dirigente cuestiona. ¿Cómo ha sido la implementación de la “guerracontra las drogas” en nuestro país? Más allá del deterioro... Read more
Sorpresivamente -pareciera- en América Latina el debate sobre los cambios al regímen internacional de control de drogas es el más pertinente, porque durante décadas la región aceptó casi sin chistar las directrices de Washington en la materia, y porque gobiernos tanto de izquierda como de derecha en el continente han, -o habían sido- sumamente inflexibles para considerar por sí mismos cualquie... Read more
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The world-wide debate over cannabis reform appears to be gaining uncommon speed and unexpectedly it is in Latin America that the winds of change have greatest force. So where is Mexico in this panorama? There are currently eight Bills on the question of marihuana gathering dust in the annals of various parliamentary commissions.... Read more
