Mexico
Smith, Phillip S.
Although Mexican President Vicente Fox last year made brief comments suggesting drug legalization may be the ultimate solution, and his Foreign Secretary, Jorge Castafieda, made widelyread...
...Not all Mexican political figures, however, are marching in lock-step with Washington: Patricio Martinez Garcia, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) governor of Chihuahua, home of Ciudad Jubrez and its notorious drug-business murders, last year called for a study of drug legalization and announced in June that his administration has launched a study of marijuana legalization within the state...
...Organizations such as the Multiforo Alicia, a coalition of social and political organizations, some of which are linked to the Zapatistas, and the faculty of philosophy and letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City have also endorsed Martinez's plan...
...At the annual bi-national Border Governors' Conference, Martinez teamed with New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson to push the cause of drug reform...
...drug policy as a threat to Latin American sovereignty...
...Se urge to rethink the drug war is starting to cut across Mexican party lines...
...Urias has endorsed Martinez' call for marijuana legalization...
...Although Mexican President Vicente Fox last year made brief comments suggesting drug legalization may be the ultimate solution, and his Foreign Secretary, Jorge Castafieda, made widelyread calls for ending drug prohibition prior to taking office, Fox's National Action Party (PAN) governmient has remained firmly in the camp of the U.S...
...official to advocate for radical drug reform...
...drug war...
...Johnson, a Republican, is the highest elected U.S...
...Even the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has at least one legislator calling for dramatic change: Gregorio Urias, congressman from the drug-trafficking hotbed of Sinaloa, in June 2001 authored a report calling for legalization and criticizing U.S...
Vol. 36 • September 2002 • No. 2
