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August 10, 2010

Vicente Fox Calls for Legalization of Drugs
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In an attempt to combat the increasing violence resulting from drug
trafficking, former Mexican President Vicente Fox has come out in favor
of legalizing drugs in both Mexico and the United States. Fox described
legalization as a "strategy to strike and break the economic structure
that allows the mafias to generate huge profits in their business." Fox
went on to say, "What is happening is that this huge market of the
United States in drug consumption, the largest in the world, is
generating the weapons that are sold to Mexican cartels, and is
generating the money that is laundered in the United States and brought
to Mexico." It is estimated that 28,000 people have been killed in the
drug war in Mexico since 2006.



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