{"id":7006,"date":"2013-03-16T23:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T03:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2013-03-16T23:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T03:22:03","slug":"the-fire-next-door-mexicos-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/the-fire-next-door-mexicos-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The fire next door: Mexico&#039;s war on drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8qCmBuagOKA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country&#8217;s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. The growing violence has created concerns that Mexico could become a failed state, and U.S. political leaders also worry that the corruption and violence is seeping across the border into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In his compelling new book, Ted Galen Carpenter details the growing horror overtaking Mexico and explains how the current U.S.-backed strategies for trying to stem Mexico&#8217;s drug violence have been a disaster. Boldly conveyed in The Fire Next Door, the only effective strategy is to defund the Mexican drug cartels by abandoning the failed drug prohibition policy, thereby eliminating the lucrative black-market premium and greatly reducing the financial resources of the drug cartels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country&#8217;s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. 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