Down Mexico Way

In a novel approach to the Global War on Drugs, Mexican president Felipe Calderon has proposed that the possession of small amounts of street drugs be decriminalized – and this includes not only marijuana but such concoctions as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and opium. This idea is “likely to irk Washington”, according to the news item. Well, of course, since one of the main pillars of the American Empire is the “war on drugs”, which serves as an excuse to militarily and economically domineer countless third-world countries. It is also a massive jobs program, and the unemployment rate would jump if the war on drugs was ever called off. So clearly this idea of Calderon’s is totally in the face of the regime in Washington, and for that reason is likely to go nowhere – although it must be admitted that there is a groundswell, among Latin American countries, of mutiny against U.S. drug policy and its associated tyrannies. Maybe if they all got the same idea at the same time – but hey, this is Latin America, after all. But one can always hope.