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How to win the Mexican drug war
The U.S. government has spent $1.6 billion to help Mexico end a war between drug cartels that has killed 63,000 people south of our border in the past six years.
Yet many of our assumptions about this war are wrong.
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... So the right way to fight a drug war in Mexico is not to aim at
eliminating criminal organizations, as many have assumed, but rather to
create conditions in which war does not pay. This will not be achieved
with the strategy Washington has embraced. Even if all criminal
organizations were eliminated, new ones would emerge as long as profits
could be made from cocaine. A war against drug organizations is an
endless war. ...
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