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Ex-Mexico prez suggests truce with drug cartels

Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:04 PM EDT
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Associated Press
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— Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says maybe it's time to consider a truce with drug traffickers and even an amnesty for them as a way to stop violence in Mexico.

Fox says authorities "at the highest level" should also consider legalizing drugs.

The former president, however, says "exemplary measures" must be taken against the attackers who set a casino on fire and killed 52 people in Monterrey.

His comments Friday go against President Felipe Calderon's strategy of sending troops and federal police to confront drug traffickers.

Fox was criticized for his anti-drug strategy, which focused on arresting top drug lords. His critics say the approach created a power vacuum that led to a spiral of violence between rival gangs.

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Forest Sinclair

Legalizing the drugs is a good idea ... it will divest the drug cartels of the economic base. We need to do this in the U.S. as the War on Drugs (I think the first President Bush declared this war) and every president since has kept it up. It is a war we have not win and will not win but we throw tons of money at it and make a lot of people rich. We need to legalize and regulate these drugs. You never hear of anybody holding up a store for a tobacco cigarette or people getting gunned down for liquor ... duh, because they are legal.

    Reply#1 - Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:16 PM EDT
    smellsofpoo

    Forest: Greetings; I totally agree with legalizing it here as well and without the money, it will stop.

      Reply#2 - Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:00 AM EDT
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