The antidrug politics

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It is unacceptable the balance of thirteen thousand died last year
The antidrug politics
By: Carlos Damián March 20, 2012
For a change of focus of the antidrug war
México. - In their appearance before the Senate of The States, the Chief of the North Command of that country, Charles Jacoby (CJ), the last Tuesday, 13 of March that it is premature to affirm sustained if the Mexican authorities are winning or losing the fight against the organized crime and it qualified of unacceptable the died balance of thirteen thousand that it left the violence attributed to the crashes among cartels last year or enter these and the public forces. The republican senator John McCain (JM), after listening the maximum chiefs’ report CJ, he said that Washington should “evaluate if we are being successful or we are failing, and if the Mexican government is being it or not successful, because starting from that we will have to value our strategies". JM added when insisting in that almost 50 thousand Mexican citizens have lost the life from 2006, and that at the same time diplomatic alerts have been emitted travelers for areas northern Mexicans for the American government.

It is sought to make consents among the Mexican population’s wide sectors and growing since the international public opinion it corresponds the Mexicans to determine if the politics carried out by the federal government of its country is successful and acceptable for the validity of the legality in Mexico. Such positions that constitute an abuse in the functions of who formulated them, in themselves happen in a moment in that extends, in wide and growing sectors of the international public opinion, a consent of the call “war against the drugs” declared by The States in 1971, in Richard Nixon's government, with the promise of obtaining “a world free of addictions."

The cartels when combating “them have not had an appreciable positive effect”
Jacoby (CJ) has said that Mexico in spite of the “valiant decision” of putting to the military ones in the street, to combat and to dismember to the cartels of the drugs. The general CJ, chief of Northcom in charge of American military matters in America of the North, included The States, Canada and Mexico, today, March 13st it was presented before the Committee of Armed Services of the Senate and he was asked to evaluate the situation of security in Mexico. It indicated that the violence was increased again in 2011; it began to decrease when concluding the year, but he doesn’t think that there is any conclusion that can be derived of that. Then, the Mexicans are in difficult fight with a brutal, and adaptive enemy, and to my view point, they have not hesitated.

Jacoby (CJ), the veteran of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, when trying to establish security, it recommends “reducing the violence through the communities, of the northeast, and that is the correct strategy to continue". In the same audience the couple of the general JC also appeared, the general Douglas Fraser (DF), chief of the South Command (Southcom), in charge of military relationships and matters of security in Center and South America and the Caribbean. Fraser (DF) it pointed out that “when increasing Mexico their pressure we see that the nets, of the cartels of the Zetas and the cartel of Sinaloa, they are entering in Central America."

It change focus
The participants of this forum among those that we can mention: the president from Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; the former presidents from Mexico and Brazil Vicente Fox and Fernando Cardoso, respectively; the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, writer Misha Glenny, among others. This debate was organized on Tuesday, March 13th, for Google and the British organization intelligence2, and most of the participants coincided with diverse tones in that the current combat politics to the drug traffic has thrown disastrous balances: the drugs are more today within reach of the population that the organizations dedicated to the move drug run and sale of narcotics have been more powerful for four decades, and the number of bodies increases as a result of the government efforts to combat them it has multiplied for hundred of thousands.

In the debate mentioned it became evident the prohibition’s defender argumentation weakness, the general director of the office of the Organization of United Nations for the Control of the Drugs and the Crime, Antonio Maria Costa who didn't find better argument to be opposed that to say that the narcotics “are harmful for the health and they should be regulated", posture that is not opposed with their decriminalization. In the face of similar absence of reasons after the political prohibitionists, the proposals of decriminalization of the drugs have gone appearing and winning followers in the scientific and academic communities, as well as in the political environments of diverse countries, had light that the strategies based on the prohibition have not simply been able to eliminate neither to attenuate the problem.

With this backdrop, it is inadmissible and devastating that while in a majority sector of the international public opinion they collect force the intents to articulate in coherent form a new focus of the phenomenon of the drug traffic and for to formulate other again the strategies to make it front, in our country continue being developed a bathroom of blood, the fall of the institutions continues in new summits of decomposition, the militarization of the public life, the social disintegration and the human degradation advance, it stays the surveillance of the country of the bars and the stars to maintain a combat focus to the ineffective, counteractive drugs and it expire. (La Jornada, política, p.p. 2 - 6, January 31, 2012).