SUNDAY, 25 MARCH 2012 14:19 BARBARA SCHIEBER

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The President of Guatemala, Otto Perez put the issue of drug legalization on the SICA agenda in a historic meeting in Antigua, Guatemala on Saturday, despite the efforts of a certain power to get the meeting canceled at the last minute. For the first time 3 Central American Leaders defied the US and send a strong and clear message: we consider the war on drugs failed, we demand that US takes the responsibility, we demand the US pays, we are not paying the price for US failure.

It is very clear that the Presidents of Central America and many Latin American countries are tired of the empty promises and empty US rhetoric on the war on drugs. They have also learned the lesson from Mexico, where President Calderon has been doing as the US asks, turning the country into a bloodbath. Last week Gen. Charles Jacoby, commander of U.S. Northern Command, said during testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee: Mexico’s “decapitation” strategy of capturing or killing high-value drug cartel leaders with the help of U.S. has a problem, it isn´t working. “The decapitation strategy — they’ve been successful at that. Twenty-two out of the top 37 trafficking figures that the Mexican government has gone after have been taken off the board. But it has not had an appreciable effect — an appreciable, positive effect.”

President Otto Perez Molina has said the war on drugs in Latin America has failed, and has set out a draft of proposals to look at the possibility of decriminalizing narcotics or establishing a regional court to try traffickers. Read More Here >>> http://guatemala-times.com/opinion/editorial/3019-us-no-longer-domi...

(TLS)- With the US losing influence in world politics many country's are going to start working for their own best interests again. The drug war is a big part of the domestic police state, reason to search property on a whim ("smells like pot, I'm searching"), huge black budget funds and the main support for the prison industrial complex. I doubt the US Govt. will let the war on drugs go without a fight. I expect staged terror and war propaganda to begin in earnest in south and central america if this plan goes ahead as is. Venezuela will likely be one of the main targets as it's been on the elites shit list for a very long time. Enough tension in the region and the pawns will fall back in line, at least that has been the game plan for over a century. I doubt it will work as it has in the past, the war on drugs is doomed. The public is now debating the issues and seeing the light. 

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