War on drugs perhaps more harmful than all the wars in the world combined: Santos

[Judi Lynn]

War on drugs perhaps more harmful than all the wars in the world combined: Santos
written by Adriaan Alsema December 11, 2016


Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos took an unexpected jab at a the United States-led war on drugs when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling it perhaps more harmful than all the wars in the world combined.

Santos has long been a critic of global counter-narcotics policies and has persistently called to rethink the United States-led war on drugs for years, going as far as proposing the legalization of cocaine as an option as far back as 2011.

While domestically taking a more public health oriented approach, the administration of President Barack Obama has so far refused to change its controversial international strategy, spurring the Colombian president to use his acceptance speech and newly
acquired status as Nobel Peace Prize laureate to step up his criticism.

. . .

The human cost of the criminalized drug trade in Latin America, the main supplier of cocaine to the consumer countries in the US and Canada, is impossible to calculate, but has likely cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Latinos from Argentina to Mexico.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/us-led-war-drugs-perhaps-harmful-wars-world-santos/

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141637649

[brush]

1. That's not all. We've been at war, involved in coups, occupations and assassinations . . .

continuosly since the 1890s.

Stephen Kinzer's book lays it all our. It'a an excellent and informative read:

"Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change"

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks for sharing that title. It sounds too helpful to miss.

I ordered it online after seeing your post.

We all need to know this information, and we certainly have to find it for ourselves, as many of us learned long ago, that's the only way we're ever going to know, most likely, as whatever is learned by the "news" media is not being delivered to U.S. citizens, contrary to their obligation to inform honestly.

Really, really eager to get started on this book.

Thank you!