Mexico looks to legalisation as drug war murders hit 28,000 : "Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, has joined calls for a debate on the legalisation of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year being slaughtered in cartel wars.
'It is a fundamental debate,' the president said, belying his traditional reluctance to accept any questioning of the military-focused offensive against the country's drug cartels that he launched in late 2006. 'You have to analyse carefully the pros and cons and key arguments on both sides.' The president said he personally opposes the idea of legalisation." August 4, 2010, The Guardian, UK
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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