The US’s ‘War on Drugs’ Has Spiraled Dangerously Out of Control
The US’s ‘War on Drugs’ Has Spiraled Dangerously Out of Control It didn’t work in Afghanistan, so let’s do it in Mexico. Rebecca Gordon March 23, 2015 Photographs of the 43 disappeared students sit on school desks placed in a plaza at Mexico's National Autonomous University. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com . To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com . They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power. They have penetrated the local, state, and national governments and control entire sections of the country. They provide employment and services to an impoverished public, which distrusts their actual government with its bitter record of corruption , repression , and torture . They seduce young people from several countries, including the United States, into their murderous a...