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First came the FARC, who last September 9 flatly denied direct involvement in drug trafficking and called for the legalization of drugs globally as the only way to solve the problem. The truth is that very few traffickers have been shown to favor a measure that would drastically reduce their income. You remember, the only proposal in this regard came from the father of Pablo Escobar, many years ago.

face intoxication campaigns allotted narcoguerrilla (see origin of the term in the left frame) the lion's share in the business of drug trafficking in Colombia, independent analysts generally agree that the FARC are limited to collect a tax on farmers in their areas control. However, it is no secret-although not give intoxicants aware "that the paramilitaries have taken forever to grow, process and distribute vast amounts of coca and cocaine, while his favorite President (Alvaro Uribe), no only far away from legalizing whim, but has repeatedly tried to push through the criminalization of mere consumption, fortunately without success to date.

FARC's proposal would be a pretty resounding proof that their relationship with large-scale drug trafficking exists only in the deluded minds of their opponents. Indeed, this news has been muted by most major media, as well as the various reports that indicate strong links and aged between current president of Colombia and the drug traffickers. It is possible that these media do not consider the Military Intelligence Service of the U.S. as a reliable source.

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More media coverage has won the recent ruling in favor of legalizing Guatemalan Vice President Eduardo Stein, during the XIV Summit of the Non-Aligned:

"" The prohibition of liquor for 60 or 70 years was an experience that illustrated how a society reacts developed and resourced to a ban of this nature, and we are experiencing a very similar cycle, "Stein said when asked about the legalization of the coca leaf, given by the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, during his recent visit to Guatemala.

"The only way to solve this problem is to legalize drug use, manage and regulate its medical use and putting all the safeguards and controls for prevention are needed, "he added."

Eduardo Stein, drug legalization advocates

And is that Guatemala is facing a number of years the serious problem of conversion of former members of death squads in drug hitmen, an activity that have contributed to robust methods:

"The beheadings are a way to terrorize and destroy the enemy, and which are a form imported with the addition of the Mara Salvatrucha and the Kaibiles, as the killers of the various posters. The Kaibiles, the elite counter in the civil war in Guatemala, used to behead the alleged guerrillas and displaying their heads at the entrance to the villages to terrorize the natives and make clear who was boss. "

Metastasis of narco

As mentioned in a previous post, 1,300 drug-related murders so far this year in Mexico go far beyond all that occurred in gang wars for control of the alcohol business for thirteen years of Prohibition in the U.S. . Stein course falls far short when comparing that situation to today. I wonder when will the UN to account for the carnage in the should of its drug policy.