As with so many of our trade relationships, we’ve outsourced production — along with the violence that often comes with keeping the products cheap. Thanks for the dope and the meth, Mexico, and good luck with those nasty Zetas!" Dec. 6, 2010
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.
Dec 7, 2010
Whack-a-mole: What a real drug war looks like - KansasCity.com
The author is right that the drug war is based in a trade relationship. But she ignores the conclusion that is to be drawn from the fact that U.S. users are the market. It is U.S. drug prohibition laws that create the illegal market, fund the cartels and produce the violence. To end the bloody, otherwise endless war, the U.S. needs to end Prohibition and establish the regulated, legal sale of drugs, like alcohol.
Mexico: What a real drug war looks like - KansasCity.com: "It’s easy to cluck our tongues about the gruesome violence “over there,” but to do so is to absolve ourselves of the role our country plays in this bloody import/export business. Let’s be honest: this is a trade relationship. Mexico supplies the drugs. We supply the users.
As with so many of our trade relationships, we’ve outsourced production — along with the violence that often comes with keeping the products cheap. Thanks for the dope and the meth, Mexico, and good luck with those nasty Zetas!" Dec. 6, 2010
As with so many of our trade relationships, we’ve outsourced production — along with the violence that often comes with keeping the products cheap. Thanks for the dope and the meth, Mexico, and good luck with those nasty Zetas!" Dec. 6, 2010
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