From
Eric Dondero:Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico, with the conservative Partido Accion National (PAN), has officially come out for the legalization of drugs.
From Bloomberg:
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said his country should legalize the production and sale of drugs in order to curb rising cartel-related violence.Editor's Note - I had the pleasure of meeting President Fox in person at a Young Republicans of Harris County (Houston) meeting in 1996. He was the guest speaker. Serving as Congressman Ron Paul's Senior District Aide at the time, I was one of 5 other Houston YRs to share his front table for the dinner.
Legalizing narcotics would curtail funding to organized crime groups, who are using profits from the drug trade to consolidate power, Fox wrote yesterday on his personal website.
“Radical prohibition strategies have never worked,” Fox said. “The cost of the fight against organized crime, and in particular narcotics trafficking, has been enormous in our country.”
The drug war has killed 28,000 people in Mexico since late 2006, when President Felipe Calderon entered office vowing to take on the cartels, according to data from the government intelligence agency, known as CISEN. That’s keeping tourists away and limiting foreign direct investment, Fox said.
Fox said in a July 28 interview with Bloomberg Television that the U.S. as well as Mexico were responsible for the violence.
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