World-News

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''There is no end game here. The United States is using all its vast powers to do what urban police do in American cities: chase the corner drug dealers out of one area and into another, through the use of temporary intensive 'enforcement'and then chase them back again at a later date.... Meanwhile, in the United States, controlling the demand side appears to be interpreted as throwing people, particularly minority men, in jail for drug offenses, leading to the highest incarceration rate in the world.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8371-the-us-war-on-drug-cartels-in-mexico-is-a-deadly-failure



Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War

Eduardo Porter, The New York Times News Service: ''If there is one number that embodies the seemingly intractable challenge imposed by the illegal drug trade.... That is the retail price .... of one gram of pure cocaine.... This number contains pretty much all you need to evaluate the Mexican and American governments' 'war' to eradicate illegal drugs from the streets of the United States. What it says is that the struggle on which they have spent billions of dollars and lost tens of thousands of lives over the last four decades has failed.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10216-numbers-tell-of-failure-in-drug-war

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How the 'Drug War' creates collateral damage
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-bogus-drug-war/how-the-drug-war-creates-collateral-damage.html

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The Drug War, And The Isolation Of The U.S.

By Noam Chomsky

Latin Americans may yet again inspire progress in human rights in the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31302.htm



US officials at Mexican border accused of widespread human rights abuses

Civil rights body accuses Customs and Border Protection agents of using excessive force against US citizens and immigrants.

http://bit.ly/Kq2XSN


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Latin+America
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mexico
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=immigra
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+drugs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collateral+damage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=incarcerat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Karlin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eduardo+Porter
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