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Latin American countries pursue alternatives to US drug war
Washington Post
BOGOTA, Colombia — When President Obama arrives in Colombia for a hemispheric summit this weekend, he will hear Latin American leaders say that the US-orchestrated war on drugs, which criminalizes drug use and employs military tactics to fight gangs, 
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VIDEO: Drug war policy an important topic for Summit of the Americas
Florida Independent
By Marcos Restrepo | 04.10.12 | 11:25 am Another Latin American president has called for a conversation about the US-sponsored war on drugs during the sixth Summit of the Americas, which takes place next week in Cartagena, Colombia.
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Summit of the Americas may by a turning point in the war on drugs
CBS News
(Credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (CBS News) No place on Earth has seen the bad end of the war on drugs more so than Latin America, where drug gangs flourish and bystanders are murdered by the tens of thousands. A lot of the drug war-related suffering in 
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VIDEO: Colombia President Santos calls for new look at War on Drugs
The Colorado Independent
By Marcos Restrepo Another Latin American president has called for a conversation about the US-sponsored war on drugs during the sixth Summit of the Americas, which takes place next week in Cartagena, Colombia. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos 
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Miami-Dade TNT Unit Loses the War on Drugs and Liberty City’s Trust
Miami New Times
Santa’s Helper, they say, is a perfect illustration of how a unit with a history of corruption — and a mound of complaints about excessive force — has lost the War on Drugs. In recent years, three officers who worked with TNT, but not assigned to the 
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EPA’s war on property rights
Daily Caller
By Paul H. Jossey “War,” as political metaphor, is most often a tasteless accessory that demeans the term to those who have actually experienced it (“war on poverty,” “war on drugs“). But to the extent it connotes a full-fledged attempt to subjugate a 
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Opinion: Obama Legalize Drugs or Turn Back Drug War at Colombia Summit
Democratic Underground
With the US-led drug war into its fourth decade, the leaders of South and Latin America are demanding change and reform from the largest importer of drugs in the hemisphere and the mightiest enforcer of drug prohibition. Despite the growing influence 
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DRUG WAR: 2 of Latin America’s deadliest gangs reportedly join forces
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
2010, the Guatemalan military declared a month long state of siege in Alta Verapaz in hopes of reclaiming cities that have been taken over by Mexico’s Zetas drug gang. Guatemalan authorities say they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an 
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Why Wall Street loves the War on Drugs
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Here’s what make it worse: I don’t think anyone at Goldman Sachs talked to the White House about this, but the 1 percent clearly have a lot to gain from the drug war. And it has nothing to do withdrugs. Let’s be logical here. There’s only one possible 
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