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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Clinton Apologizes to Mexico for the Drug War
At a speech in Mexico last week, former President Bill Clinton seemingly apologized for the destruction unleashed upon Mexico by the war on drugs.
Addressing a group of business leaders, students, and politicians, Clinton said, I wish you had no narco-trafficking, but its not really your fault. He explained that so-called successes in the U.S.-led drug war in other countries had not eliminated the drug trade, but rather just pushed it into Mexico and Central America. I apologize for that, he said.
But thats just the tip of the iceberg of the apology the U.S. owes Mexico. The U.S. gives hundreds of millions of dollars in military and police aid to Mexico each year the vast majority of which is funneled into the disastrous drug war. The U.S. government has spent roughly $3 billion since 2008 on the drug war in Mexico alone. The results of this massive drug war escalation have been catastrophic: more than 100,000 people murdered; more than 25,000 people disappeared; hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes; tens of thousands of orphans; incalculable psychological trauma; numerous mass graves in Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and other states each with dozens, even hundreds of unidentified bodies; and a dramatic increase in human rights violations committed by Mexican security forces, including thousands of documented cases of torture, disappearances and extrajudicial executions
http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/bill-clinton-apologizes-mexico-drug-war-now-its-president-obamas-turn-end-it
merrily
(45,251 posts)I'm sensing a pattern.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
merrily
(45,251 posts)Garion_55
(1,915 posts)he can reschedule pot down to 2 tomorrow and end the suffering of millions of people. if he does it soon enough the gop wont try to stain hillary or the next dem nominee with it. it will be old news at that point.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)should be apologized for over and over, but first, it should be exposed for what it is and ended completely.
The suffering, loss and a laundry list of laundered money, empowered and enriched crime syndicates, various industries who profit in more ways than one, far outweigh, (by a huge ratio) the supposed benefits of legislating morality and especially when it comes to the victimless crime aspect of the persecution involved. We also have industries invested in the spoils of this war on the people and combining those special interests along with police budgets and most importantly, the prosperous, growing and thriving private prison industry, it is clear who our real enemies are in this matter.
The prohibition of certain drugs has a mufti-faceted genesis from racism to industrial protectionism along with various factors that enable more control, surveillance and erosion of rights than most people imagine or are informed about.
This so-called war is similar to other wards, a racket. The early propaganda was once very easy to disseminate without public investigation into the truth of the claims made. Now that more information is available on the subject of this form of prohibition, that concocted fantasy world of manipulative and calculated misinformation and hysteria is begging to erode even while the manipulative hysteria continues on this subject.
druidity33
(6,448 posts)going to be the start of a joke or an Onion article.
When did this happen? Oh, i guess i'll read the article, thanks!
K&R