Former Mexican President Urges Truce With Cartels, Amnesty
by Jason Ditz,
August 26, 2011
In the latest sign that the Mexican government is dramatically losing its US-backed war on drugs, former President Vicente Fox today called for the nation to agree to a full truce with the nation’s drug cartels, along with an offer of amnesty for crimes committed.
Previous calls for a truce from other figures have been angrily condemned by the current government, which insists all the cartel members must be arrested. The fact that they have no way of actually doing this appears not to have phased them.
Read more on the call for a truce at the Washington Post
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JamieN
August 27th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
The government don;t care the CIA isa the biggest transporter of drugs in the world.The governments make money of there holesale prices plus make more by putting people in prison for something they holsale.Many in prison sell just to support their habit and need to be sentenced to a reabilitation center for the time they get to get tools to not fall back into them.Drugs are not just in poor niebourhoods that the government ignores but in every hood so all citizens should stand for a change to the way addicts are handeld.Prison just helps them become more crimminaly inclind and meat more criminals and usualy come out worse.People will do anything to feed their familys if the government makes it imposible to live with such high uninployment.We are all people and make mistakes.This 3 strike law people with no violence go to jail for life for stealing as littel as a pice of pitza does that sound fare.
T Roy
August 27th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
It will never happen.