FREE MEXICO-Javier Sicilia: ‘The United States Imposed This War on Us, It Should Change the Strategy” http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4759

In an interview with Americas Program director Laura Carlsen, Javier Sicilia called on the U.S. government to change its strategy and criticized the Merida Initiative as “an initiative that only has imagination for violence and war.”JS: Well, for us it’s a terrible role. I believe that the United States, looking to protect its global interests, has in a way imposed this war against drug trafficking on us. Because that was how it was born, even though it has since acquired the tone of a war on organized crime, but at first it was a war against drug trafficking. They imposed it on us, even though the U.S. has the highest number of drug users.

They also have something more terrible than drugs themselves–which should be treated as a public health problem and not a security problem as they have been, or an issue of criminality–they have this other problem, legalized, which are guns… In four and a half years their weapons have legally armed the military and the police, but they have also illegally armed traffickers and the cartels. And this, in a state as negligent and as corrupt as Mexico (unfortunately we have to admit it), this has left us citizens in a state of absolute defenselessness. That is to say, those weapons are killing us, those guns are wiping us out. And the consumption of drugs in the United States has not dropped one bit.

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