Voters in Washington and Colorado made history on Election Day when they voted to legally regulated and tax marijuana. Their votes signaled the beginning of the end for the costly and unjust war on drugs
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Mexico: Letter to President Peña Nieto
On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I wish to congratulate you on your inauguration as president. You have assumed leadership of a country whose recent human rights record is appalling. Addressing the abuses committed during the tenure of your predecessor an
Parsing Obama’s Words on Legalizing Marijuana
Anytime the president answers a question about marijuana and federal marijuana policy, as he did in a recent interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters that airs tonight, it makes sense to parse his words.
Mexico’s new president seeks fresh start on drug war with Obama
President Barack Obama and Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto will meet to discuss the drug war—which has killed nearly ten times as many people as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined—among other issues, at the White House Tuesday.
Obama Win Praised in Latin America
From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, reaction to President Obama’s re-election was broadly positive across Latin America, a region that tilts well to the left of American electoral politics. “By Knockout!” read the front-page headline of Mexico’s Milenio dail
U.S. states’ pot votes cause stir in Mexico
The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana has left Mexican President-elect Enrique Pea Nieto and his team scrambling to reformulate their anti-drug strategies in light of what one senior aide sai
Mexico’s Age of Agreement
At first, Mexico’s recent presidential election looked unpromising: the PRI, the country’s long-dominant party, crept back into office, but with only 38 percent of the vote and no majority in Congress. Yet the campaign revealed just how much Mexicans actu
Latin King
Despite the dreams and expectations of democrats the world over, the era of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela did not come to an end on Oct. 7. The ailing President was re-elected, for the third time, to a new six-year term, which, if he serves it out, will have k
For Hugo Chávez, a new victory is near
If one were an irredeemable optimist, upcoming events in Venezuela and Colombia could be viewed as a harbinger of good things to come. In Venezuela, Sunday’s presidential election may put an end to Hugo Chavez’s 14 years in power, along with his systemati
JORGE CASTAÑEDA: IN MEXICO, A VOTE FOR REAL CHANGE
Mexico’s presidential election produced a contradictory outcome: There was a clear-cut victory for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for 70 years until 2000; a resounding defeat for the candidate of the outgoing National Acti