Latin American Drugs & links

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Review of Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and The New Politics of Latin America

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[davidbfpo]

If headlines solved difficult problems then the Mexican President's UN speech is a good example. The BBC report assembles other opinions too. Here is a fact:

Mexico has had more people disappear than Argentina and Chile together during their whole military regimes...We've had more Mexicans die in the drugs war than the US has had in Afghanistan and Iraq together. It's unreal. There's no way you can justify that kind of human cost.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36109104

Open Democracy chimes into the debate:http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=...c&e=c883a819dc

A change in direction as the US Presidential Election looms is hardly encouraging or those who advocate change.