Items tagged with mexico
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Leaders in Latin America call for review of drug policy after 2 U.S. states vote to legalize marijuana [12.11.2012] | A group of Latin American leaders declared that votes by two U.S. states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash drug ... |
Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico [11.11.2012] | The story of the Mexican drug war has generally focused on the violence perpetrated by drug cartels and the apparent inability to bring so many crimi ... |
Legalisation in U.S. States may prompt changes in Mexico’s anti-drug policy [07.11.2012] | The legalisation of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, which will allow the drug to be taxed and regulated, in two U.S. states will pro ... |
Mexico says marijuana legalization in U.S. could change anti-drug strategies [07.11.2012] | The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana has left Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña N ... |
Mexico's new gov to review pot fight after US vote [07.11.2012] | The legalization of recreational marijuana in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado will force Mexico to rethink its efforts to halt marijuana s ... |
Biggest blow to Mexico drug cartels? It could be on your state ballot [05.11.2012] | Over the past year, the world has eyed Latin America as it has forged forward, in both policy and politics, with a rethink of the “war on drugs.” (Se ... |
Narco-states grope for new strategy [04.11.2012] | Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala face the need to modify their approach to the fight against drug trafficking and are urging the world to do the same. ... |
Legalising marijuana: The view from Mexico [02.11.2012] | Voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will vote on whether to legalise marijuana. Polls suggest that the initiatives have a decent chance of pass ... |
Hit Mexico’s Cartels With Legalization [01.11.2012] | We have to face up to the hard reasons why thousands of young men (and some women) with full mental faculties have become serial killers. These reaso ... |
Mexico study: US legalization cuts cartel profits [30.10.2012] | A study released by a respected Mexican think tank asserts that proposals to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado, Oregon and Washi ... |
First Survey of Illegal Drug Users in Mexico City [23.10.2012] | The principal motivation for implementing this survey was the lack of existing information regarding the relationship between drug users and their so ... |
Latin American nations push UN to drop zero tolerance on drugs [04.10.2012] | Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico – hardly liberal bastions – have taken the matter a step further. The Latin American countries, each threatened by dr ... |
Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy [03.10.2012] | Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate ... |
U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. [26.09.2012] | The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of drug laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new ... |
Inside the Golden Triangle [29.08.2012] | After some initial difficulty, Miguel Angel Vega, a writer for the Sinaloa-based Rio Doce newspaper, was able to gain access to the Sierra Madre Occi ... |
Far but near: Marijuana reform in Mexico? [19.08.2012] | 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 ... |
Mexico's President-Elect: Legalization Should Be Part of Drug Strategy Debate [02.07.2012] | The president-elect of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, said Mexico should have a debate about legalizing and regulating, an approach advocated by other L ... |
Mérida: continued support for a failed strategy [21.05.2012] | Some five years ago, after Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón declared a War on Drugs followed by a firm military crackdown on drug trafficking organ ... |
Latin America's fatal prison problem [14.05.2012] | Prison riots in Venezuela. Jailbreaks in Mexico. Prison fires in Honduras. Latin America is displaying violent cases of the ails of its prison system ... |
Considering New Strategies for Confronting Organized Crime in Mexico [29.03.2012] | Mexico has experienced an unprecedented rise in crime and violence over the past five years with over 47,000 people killed in crime related violence ... |
Just say no [05.03.2012] | Given the recent calls by several Latin American presidents for a debate on legalising drugs, would the United States show any flexibility in its sta ... |
Mexico president hints legalizing drugs may be needed [20.09.2011] | Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday turned up pressure on the United States to curb demand for illicit drugs, hinting that legalization of na ... |
Tackling Violence in Mexico [10.09.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) translated the article La raíz de la violencia by Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez that was originally publis ... |
Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? [30.08.2011] | The central statistic of Mexico's violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to alarm u ... |
Mexico's Drug War, Feminized [14.08.2011] | Mexico's drug war is more than an armed conflict. With government estimates of its death toll well above 30,000, it is now a humanitarian crisis affe ... |
Former Mexican president urges legalizing drugs [27.07.2011] | Part of the solution to end drug violence in Mexico should include legalizing drugs like marijuana for personal use, according to former President Vi ... |
The Way Forward [30.06.2011] | Since time immemorial, Mexicans have argued that were it not for U.S. demand for illicit substances, Mexico would have a manageable drug problem. Mor ... |
The Drug War Is the Inevitable Result of Capitalism Gone Mad; Ciudad Juarez Is All of Our Futures [21.06.2011] | War, as I came to report it, was something fought between people with causes, however crazy or honourable: like between the American and British occup ... |
Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation [18.06.2011] | "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which comprised a former UN secretary-general, ... |
Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17.06.2011] | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this y ... |
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs [02.04.2011] | "Wachovia's blatant disregard for our banking laws gave international cocaine cartels a virtual carte blanche to finance their operations," said a fe ... |
The Case of Mexico [08.12.2010] | Mexico’s security crisis’ most evident toll is the unacceptable level of violence linked to drug trafficking. However, a report published today by th ... |
Drug Laws and Prisons in Mexico [03.12.2010] | Mexico is currently undergoing one of the worst crises in its history in terms of violence and insecurity. This crisis is directly related to the str ... |
How California's Pot Proposition Is Agitating Latin America [31.10.2010] | What was Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smoking? Colombia has long been an obedient lieutenant in the U.S.-led war on drugs, yet there was Sa ... |
Todos Somos Juarez? [19.10.2010] | On October 12, 2010, Mexican president Felipe Calderon traveled to Ciudad Juarez to attend a meeting evaluating the “Todos Somos Juarez” program whic ... |
Mexican waves, Californian cool [14.10.2010] | If California votes in favour of legalisation, Mexico would be wise to follow suit (the bottom would anyway fall out of its marijuana business). The ... |
An altered state [14.10.2010] | Proposition 19 has a chance of winning mainly because Californians have become rather relaxed about weed. Back in 1972 a proposition to legalise the ... |
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico [13.10.2010] | The United States’ demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. So ... |
Legalizing pot in California would hardly dent cartels' revenue, report says [13.10.2010] | Proposition 19, which would partially legalize marijuana in California, would do little to curtail the violent Mexican organizations that smuggle it ... |
Legalizing Marijuana in California Will Not Dramatically Reduce Mexican Drug Trafficking Revenues [12.10.2010] | Legalizing marijuana in California will not dramatically reduce the drug revenues collected by Mexican drug trafficking organizations from sales to t ... |
Abused and Afraid in Ciudad Juarez [06.10.2010] | Residents in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are caught between the drug-related violence and the human rights violations committed by the security forces. Th ... |
WOLA and Prodh Publish Report of Human Rights Violations in Ciudad Juarez [05.10.2010] | Residents in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are caught between the drug-related violence and the human rights violations committed by the security forces, co ... |
Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization [12.09.2010] | A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway viol ... |
Cannabis in Mexico [27.08.2010] | In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previo ... |
Thinking the unthinkable [12.08.2010] | Since marijuana provides the Mexican gangs with up to half their income, taking that business out of their hands would change the balance of power in ... |
Has the time come to legalize drugs? [12.08.2010] | Legalization of drugs -- long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups -- is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America. Last week's surpri ... |
A war on drugs? No, this is a war on the Mexican people [12.08.2010] | Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, began his administration in 2000 with a popular festival. Felipe Calderón, who took over in 2006, began ... |
Mexico rethinks drugs strategy as violence escalates [11.08.2010] | Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, launched his presidency three and a half years ago with an unprecedented military-led offensive against the coun ... |
Ex-Mexico president calls for legalizing drugs [09.08.2010] | Former President Vicente Fox is joining with those urging his successor to legalize drugs in Mexico, saying that could break the economic power of th ... |
Marijuana Legalization Gaining Favor in Mexico [08.08.2010] | "I don't think that marijuana legalization will be a panacea on drug violence in Mexico," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at ... |
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