Michael MacDonald
Drug legalization discussions have re-opened ahead of this weekend’s Summit of the Americas which will be held in Cartagena, Colombia.
In an op-ed published in The Guardian, Guatemalan President Otto Perez wrote that the w…
Posts Tagged ‘Mexico’
Mexico Church Divided Over Drug Wars
March 23, 2012 | 4 views | No Comments
The street vendors outside the iconic Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City are doing a roaring trade.
Everything from incense and candles to huge portraits of the Pope are flying off the shelves. Unfortunately for Benedict XVI, they are pictures of his…
Border Patrol Agents Knowingly Let Drugs In
December 16, 2011 | 6 views | No Comments
An anonymous Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, speaking exclusively with The Fix, paints a stark picture of the drug war along the US-Mexico Border. The cartels’ traffickers are punching through our borders without fear, he confirms, sup…
Mexico Faces War Crimes Investigation Over ‘War On Drugs’
November 28, 2011 | 4 views | No Comments
[img_assist|nid=29171|title=|desc=A man looks at a van containing the bodies of several men in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday. Mexican authorities found 26 bodies in three vehicles abandoned near a major intersection, officials said.
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Cato, Cannabis, Conference And Coalescing For Reforms
November 14, 2011 | 1 views | No Comments
Joining my colleagues and friends Morgan Fox of Marijuana Policy Project, Paul Armentano of NORML and Norman Stamper of LEAP, I’m an honored contributor to a series of essays published by the Cato Institute’s Unbound series on the topic of cannabis law reform and the war on some drugs.
My essay examines 1) identifying concerns for [...]
Posted in NewsMexican Poet Hopes to Take Drug War Protest to U.S.
November 5, 2011 | 3 views | No Comments
LOS ANGELES — The poet Javier Sicilia, whose son's murder inspired him to lead protest caravans against the drug war in Mexico, says he wants to resume the protest "from the other side of the problem."
Sicilia said he w…
