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Drug War
Ray Downs
Monday November 28 2011
Just legalize it, already—that was the message heard at the Cato Institute's “Ending the War on Drugs” conference on November 15. From the heavy death toll in Mexico to the high financial cost to U.S. taxpayers, the only winners in the drug war have been the drug cartels and security companies. Yet the war goes on with no end in sight
Mexico Goverment-Drug Cartel Collusion: The Hybrid Threat
October 26, 2011
At an event at George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute last week Daniel Brito, of the Drug
Double Speak and Intervention in Mexico
October 25, 2011
Just a few days after President Felipe Calderón, in an interview with New York Times reporters, excoriated the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for wanting to pact and di
Dancing With the Devil: Drug War Politics in Bolivia
October 6, 2011
In September, the U.S. government once again singled out Venezuela, Bolivia, (and Burma) for having "failed demonstrably" in their drug control efforts. This U.S.
Menace to Society: Drug Threatdown 2011
September 22, 2011
The United States Justice Department has a National Drug Intelligence Center that, among other things, recently issued its “Nat
Rossana Reguillo
Monday September 12 2011
Beto, a 16-year-old hit man for La Familia Michoacana, one of the most notoriously violent Mexican drug gangs, tells his story. This article was originally published in the May/June 2011 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas.