After more than four decades of a failed experiment, the human cost has become too high. It is time to consider the decriminalization of drug use and the drug market
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The global Mexican
WHEN Jorge Castañeda (later Mexico’s foreign minister) was a boy, a typical family holiday was to drive to Texas. “[O]ne of the main purposes of the journey was to purchase fayuca: contraband electronics, food, clothes [and] gadgets of all sorts.”
Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War
When policy makers in Washington worry about Mexico these days, they think in terms of a handful of numbers: Mexico’s 19,500 hectares devoted to poppy cultivation for heroin; its 17,500 hectares growing cannabis; the 95 percent of American cocaine imports
World’s richest man stays calm under fire
Carlos Slim is under attack. For decades, the world’s richest man built a business empire in his native Mexico with little resistance from the competition…
The Silly Ideas of the South
Over the past few weeks, some silly ideas have circulated on the impact of the financial crisis on Latin America. The most dangerous was that Latin America would be largely impervious to a debacle that was, as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva