Could Decriminalization Be the Answer?

The massacre in Ciudad Juarez at the end of January made it clear that Mexico is losing the war on drugs. Narcotics-related violence is on the rise in other Latin American cities as well. An increasing number of voices are demanding that drugs be decriminalized.

The killers arrived in four or five SUVs. They quickly blocked off the road to Salvarcar, a working-class neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, where 60 students were attending a birthday party.

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