there should be a similar movement resisting the war on terror, putting stats together and collecting testimony. the scale of the criminality is astounding. the war on drugs is tied in with multiple agendas – suppression of dissent (even tho we fight for democracy), austerity policies (and other forms of financial rape), maintaining stability (or puppet regimes), controlling immigration (while at the same time dispossessing small farmers), and of course making lots of money thru laundering or weapons manufacturing or mercenary corporations. sick.
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There was about an average of 2,000 drug war-related homicides in the years before President Calderón launched this drug war, which is a model of the military confronting cartels in the streets. And since then, last year, for example, we had 15,000 drug-related homicides. So the correlation is obvious. More here.