The Toxic Politics Around Drugs in Latin America
Neither legalization, nor a Bukele-style crackdown, look like politically viable alternatives to the war on drugs in most countries.
Nearly everyone in today’s Latin America agrees the war on drugs, as pursued over the last 50 years, has been an abysmal failure. As a result, several key governments including Mexico seem to be quietly backing off the fight, as I wrote in last week’s column. So what might the future look like instead Most debate in the region today seems stuck between two opposite, but similarly unrealistic alternatives: Legalization or Nayib Bukele. Indeed, the most-talked about solution on the ideological left, and part of the libertarian right, is the legalization or...
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