Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.
The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis
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The End of Duterte: Four Ways the Philippine Strongman Could Fall
Pandemic-stricken Filipinos are now asking themselves how they could have fallen for a leader whose only skill is mass murder.
Our Osmotic Border
In the U.S. immigration debate, we have thus far focused our attention on the symptom—Mexicans crossing the semi-permeable barrier into the United States—and treated the crossing itself as the problem to be solved. In other words, policy makers have been preoccupied with figuring out how to make the border less permeable. But this is a fool’s errand. It’s time to start looking at the pressures that drive unidirectional movement instead of at the symptom.
Our Unscientific Drug Control Regime
Today’s drug scales do not adequately take into account the scientific and empirical evidence for proper scheduling, relying on anachronistic, ideological standards for classification and draconian legal penalties. This not only impedes more humane and effective health policy initiatives, but also champions antiquated norms that have not stood the test of time.
Guatemalan President Perez Blows up the War on Drugs
The war on drugs is America’s forgotten war.
Central American Presidents Scrutinize U.S. “War on Drugs”
The U.S. idea of a drug war in Latin America has ranged from eliminating the only source of income for small coca farmers to asking military to play a law enforcement role.
The Citizens’ Pact for a Mexico in Peace
The war against drugs is a manifestation of policies and international agreements that cast Mexico as the battlefield and where the poor of this country and Central America pay the staggering price of their lives so that drugs arrive at their destination and business empires thrive.
Napolitano in Texas: Tough Talk, Little Coherence
The Obama administration has unconditionally adopted the Calderon government position that together they are winning the drug war and all that´s needed is to stay the course. Both governments avidly support militarization of the border and of Mexico as the means to confront organized crime. Both governments write off human rights concerns and the bloodshed that the war on drugs has caused as a necessary cost.
WikiLeaks XXII: Once a Beacon of Freedom to Africa, Ghana Now Corrupted by Drug Trafficking
It’s not just the weak African states that are corrupted by drug trafficking, but larger ones like Ghana.
Peruvian President Fujimori’s Right-Hand Man Was a Gun Runner and Drug Dealer — and Employed by the U.S.
Vladimiro Montesinos, one-time right hand man to Peruvian President Fujimori, organized death squads and was recently convicted of running guns to FARC, yet the U.S. made him an ally in the “war on drugs.”