The War on Drugs Is Doomed
The source of the drug war violence is not Mexican supply. It is American demand coupled with prohibition.
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Killings Cast Pall on Mexico Drug Plan
The gangland-style murders of three people with ties to the U.S. consulate in this border city have confirmed for many people what residents here already knew: President Felipe Calderón's strategy of sending in the troops to corral drug gangs has failed.
Are US Pot Laws the Root Cause of Mexican Drug Violence?
60 percent of the profits reaped by Mexican drug lords are derived from the exportation and sale of cannabis to the American market.
Narcos Blamed for Killings of 3 With US Consulate
Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man. Three young children survived, although two suffered wounds.
Mexico Drug Gang Hushes Killings With News Blackout
A powerful drug cartel is buying off journalists in northern Mexico to work as spies and smother coverage of a spike in killings on the U.S. border in the latest attack on the media in Mexico.
Former Mexican Official Urges Legalizing Marijuana
The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
Latin America Rejects Old US Approach in Drug War
As an increasingly violent and costly drugs war clogs up prisons with small-time users, some Latin American countries are abandoning hardline U.S. policies on consumption to intensify the fight against major traffickers.
Mexico’s Drug War Leaves a Generation of Narco Widows
For every gruesome news photo of a hacked-up corpse or severed human head there is at least one woman, often several, left with her life in pieces.
Insidious Rise of Gulf Cartel
Interviews, files and court records trace a syndicate's growth from small-time pot smuggling to a mega-empire with a hub in Houston
Slaying of Drug War Hero’s Family Shocks Mexico
Assailants on Tuesday gunned down the mother, aunt and siblings of a marine killed in a raid that took out one of Mexico's most powerful cartel leaders — sending a chilling message to troops battling the drug war: You go after us, we wipe out your families.
