Items tagged with mexico and violence
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| Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war [12.12.2020] | A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be sa ... |
| Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean [01.03.2020] | The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expan ... |
| Mexico moves towards legalising cannabis [28.12.2018] | Olga Sánchez Cordero, interior minister in Mexico’s new leftist nationalist government, has submitted a bill to Congress to end prohibition and start ... |
| Here's what's behind Mexico's radical move toward legalizing marijuana during its war on drugs [18.11.2018] | Mexico may legalize marijuana, a radical shift for a country whose prohibition on narcotics has been at the heart of its long and violent war against ... |
| Drug law reform comes to Mexico [15.11.2018] | Last month, Mexico’s Supreme Court handed down two decisions that effectively overturned Mexico’s longstanding ban on the personal use of marijuana. ... |
| Mexico may be next to legalise marijuana, says incoming FM [23.10.2018] | Mexico "absolutely" could follow Canada's lead in legalising marijuana as a way to reduce violence generated by a war on drugs that "doesn't work," i ... |
| Mexico president-elect says will look at legalizing some drugs [08.10.2018] | Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would consider legalizing certain drugs as part of a broader strategy to fight pove ... |
| Mexico’s new president has a radical plan to end the drug war [15.08.2018] | Since the military took to the streets to fight the increasingly powerful and violent cartels producing and trafficking drugs north to consumers in t ... |
| Will Mexico legalize drugs? [18.07.2018] | Mexico’s President-elect López Obrador has considered unconventional methods to address his nation’s ills. In a country riddled with corruption and c ... |
| Incoming Mexican president to seek negotiated peace in drug war [06.07.2018] | Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s transition team unveiled a plan to shake up the fight against crime, including reduced jail tim ... |
| In bloody drug war, Mexico's new leader may try negotiating [02.07.2018] | For the past 12 years, Mexico has fought violent drug gangs by deploying thousands of police, soldiers and intelligence officers to crack down on car ... |
| In Mexico, is legalized pot just a pipe dream? [05.02.2018] | At a conference in late January, Mexico's top tourism official told reporters legalizing marijuana would help combat an epidemic of violence that has ... |
| In Mexico, the price of America’s hunger for heroin [30.05.2017] | The opioid epidemic that has caused so much pain in the United States is also savaging Mexico, contributing to a breakdown of order in rural areas. H ... |
| The human-rights case for drug legalization [06.06.2016] | The first shot in Mexico’s drug war was fired in December 2006, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent 6,500 security forces to reclaim Michoaca ... |
| UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution' [19.04.2016] | The 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) has approved an agreement that leaves in place the prohibitionist policies banning narcotics us ... |
| HSBC sued over drug cartel murders after laundering probe [08.02.2016] | Families of U.S. citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico sued HSBC Holdings Plc, claiming the bank can be held responsible for the deaths because i ... |
| Mexico: Challenging drug prohibition from below [13.01.2015] | The horrific forced disappearance of 43 students in Iguala reveals how organised crime and corruption thrive in conditions of institutional or democr ... |
| In Latin America, U.S. focus shifts from drug war to economy [04.05.2013] | Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles ag ... |
| Legalize marijuana and other ways U.S.-Mexico can win drug war [03.05.2013] | There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Obama’s visit to Mexico. That’s because Mexican President Peña Nieto is ... |
| 'They stole our dreams': blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico's drug wars [02.04.2013] | For three years it has chronicled Mexico's drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of readers, ... |
| Mexico goes after the narcos [24.02.2013] | Gang-outreach schemes, community centers, employment projects and construction programs aimed at transforming chaotic urban jungles. “There is a comp ... |
| Report: Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis' [19.02.2013] | Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in the report Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Crisis Ignored, that c ... |
| Mexico unveils new strategy in war on drugs and for preventing crime [12.02.2013] | Mexico's new administration has offered the first details of its new strategy in the country's war on drugs, saying the government will spend $9.2bn ... |
| Mexico changes stance in drug war – but little difference seen from Calderón [17.12.2012] | Mexico's new president has outlined a security strategy aimed at reducing drug war-related violence that, rhetorically at least, contrasts starkly wi ... |
| Turning over a new leaf [30.11.2012] | Faced with this soiled wedge between state legislation and federal law within the United States, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto and his ... |
| Mexico's drug war bright spot hides dark underbelly [27.11.2012] | For four years, Ciudad Juárez on the border with Texas was convulsed by daily slaughter, becoming the murder capital of the world and a shocking illu ... |
| "Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23.11.2012] | Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervi ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mexico looks to legalisation as drug war murders hit 28,000 [04.08.2010] | Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has joined calls for a debate on the legalisation of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year ... |
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