by Stephen C. Webster
RawStory.com
The President of Mexico has an unfortunate message for Americans still ignorant of the Drug War's cold realities: Some of your politicians are involved.
Yes folks, it is long-past time to start thinking about alternative strategies for combating both the harmful effects of drug addiction and the deadly effects of forcing an economy outside of the law.
"It is impossible to pass tons of drugs and cocaine to U.S. without some great complicity of some American authorities," said Mexican President Felipe Calderone.
"There is traffic in Mexico because there is corruption in Mexico. And that is true. But with the same argument, if there is traffic in United States, it is because there is some corruption in United States."
Calderone's comments come at 3:01 in the following video.
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For MUCH more excellent reporting about drug running in and out of US/Mexico, see investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker's site, Mad Morning News, at www.madcowprod.com. Hopsicker's latest film is "New American Druglords".
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