Latin America's struggle to cut drug route to US - 29 Mar 09

[Midnightryder7]

funny how the USA complains about all these drugs...When America is the number one customer

[mrtundra45]

@Midnightryder7 YES Druggs are awsome, keep em commin' to the usa..thnx :)

[bugactwa]

manada de petardos cuando van a aprender que se dice ColOmbia, no Columbia!!!

[cooks1234]

the first step to exterminate that problem completely is not legalizing but people take matter into their own hands under any means necessary.

second reconstruct the prison system. to kill of worst of worst burdens.and make prison a real hell.remove healthcare and resources like food,beds,etc

third instead of arresting/deporting kill on spot if known as drug member.

what does everyone think to little or to much or not good at all

[MrAgent003]

drug cartel members are PUSSIES by themselves. By themselves, they are wimps and are owned. PUSSIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[corvettejunkie6]

pueblo escobar is a god an should be praised i wish he was still alive me and him would of made good friends an i think pueblo jr is a shame to his family hes nothing like his dad jr is a hip hop wanna be puebo senior made hip hop

[lbmichel]

escobar wasnt responsible.. corruption in america was and is still responsible

[A1R5N1P3R]

Eh, this drug hurts the poor ppl where it's grown most of all. Why? Because instead of people concentrating on helping to grow their countries economy and culture through traditional means, they opt for an easy way. This easy way always leads to self destruction, not only for their country, but most of all for local communities and their families. Education is the way.

[jonnyuman54]

dude this video is not talking about legalize weed its talking about cocaine and something needs to be done about this

[yoshi207]

if we legalize weed that means less people in prison especially in texas which means less money for dick cheney who has all his money invested in prison our goverment makes money out of creating new laws !!!

[s11121sx]

yeah less people in jail but also because of the weed increase the crime , consume , problems in families, and even more money for rehab centers , better pay prison than more weapons , and center for sick people who deserve to be brought by justice

[yoshi207]

nope wrong my friend prison and jails is what creates these social and family problems it literally destroys familys if we cant legalize marijuana then we should also ban alcohol since its a brain altering chemical imagine the prison population would skyrocket if alcohol was banned and underground markets and the gangs murder and so forth too because its part of the package it would mainly hurt the drug dealers

[s11121sx]

well i really dont care if they ban alcohol , i dont even drink it , but also with the alcohol we can see youngs wasting his lifes in , and problems to 2nd peoples , and also with the drugs will be the same but in huge quantities ,with the prison is just to prevent all those things.

[yoshi207]

alchohol kill tons of people annually destroys family alcohol is responsible for murders robberys broken familys suicides!so you should care about them banning it Id fell safer with a stoner living next door than a drunk !! isnt america a hypocritical democracy we are so ridiculous in our thinking !! we have a bad economy lmao but yet we are wasting 300 billion heck i even lost count in iraq ?? but yet its the immigrants killing our economy right lmao ?? we are some delusional people

[s11121sx]

the laws arent made for make people's life unfair , having ''stoners'' isnt much different as an alcoholics , with the laws making them illegal is for other people's safety , and about democracy why you call it fake? you vote, you progress , you choose what you want to be , you have free opinion , as far as i know thats democracy , and about immigrants , if you arent a Cherokee or any native american race , then i dont know what you complain

[godzilla1]

Man has been getting high since the beginning of time in some form or another. We either need to recognize this and legalize drugs or continue to endure the pointless war on drugs.

[sarahlangendorf]

Lies. Dirty, dirty lies. Read. AND then open your mouth.

[coltzin12]

This goes to show that unless drug craving Americans stop their insatiable demand for illegal drugs this problem will be eternal. I mean they preach legallity so much yet they don't campaign about the people that incurr in the ILLEGAL act of drug consumption.

[inemtsev]

Columbia makes some drugs but Afghanistan makes at least as much, very few people know this.

[jinjobimboni]

pablo escobar is dead she is wrong in her reporting dumb bich

[inemtsev]

She said that he was brought down in 1993 man.

[RomeoneedsaJuliet]

But if we legalize marijuana, we would put CIA out of business. lol

[DemonicGemini]

long live the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

[friendsofbrookpark]

Stop Plan Colombia and Plan Mexico!! Contact Congress today!

[ebruceii]

You make great points, and I agree with you totally. Except for the part about slapping Mother Theresa, lol. The biggest part of the problem is that the general public is still buying into this crap about "declaring war" on things while the real war is being waged against US. Get caught using anything illegal, and get shoved into a privately-owned correctional facility and help them generate a profit.

[EmeterioBetances]

When it gets to kids it affects everyone. Thuglife code-Tupac Shakur wrote about selling to minors! Its the code of the streets.

[nuikaus]

"The plan .. has not been succesful in reducing the flow of drugs"... It's just another prohibition destined to fail miserably. Eliminate a cartel, and a new one, even more powerful and violent will spring up. Time after time. Just like during the prohibition of alcohol. Difference is this has been going on a lot longer, and the mobs have had more time to evolve.

[6179301948]

if the pharmaceuticals could only get a patent this stuff would be legal tomorrow morning

[EmeterioBetances]

This shit is some bullshit how you title this video Latin America! When you only mentioned Mexico and Colombia and both seem to be allied with the United States. How about you talk about the Contra wars when it comes down to illicit drugs. This title is misleadiing and does not represent Latin America as a whole. In fact it represents to client states of the U.S. and thats why Colombia is the way it is. Just as its master which we all know is the biggest gun dealer on the BLOCK!

[hotae333]

he could't be all bad he killed 30 judges at least he stoped some of the assholes thats trying to in slave you

[ebruceii]

Why on Earth would you blame Obama for something that's been going on for decades??? Thats just bad form right there.

[mike29571]

Are they going to stop giving fuel to the Alphabet Company? lol

[RomeoneedsaJuliet]

If we only told the Native American the danger of illegal immigration. lol

[OrphanPaper]

wwhat a sucksess (im being iroinic or is that sadistic no r sazcastic )

[GiovannaNYC]

We the people don't have a government anymore.  They have it!

[exacerbatedtaboo]

You notice they don't mention the CIA once. The CIA brings that shit in the US and has got caught on numerous occasions. Why don't look at the CIA if they want to stop the flow of cocaine into the US?

[kusari86]

Government is the only crook we tolerate.

[RomeoneedsaJuliet]

Actually, one simple way to solve this problem is to simply legalize and regulate those drugs. Just like they did with alcohol.

But of course, any politician doesn't want to be seen supporting the legalization of marijuana.

I swear, Obama mocking the legalization of marijuana is as funny as the U.S financial crises.

[arequipa1]

did you vote for obama?

[iraqifalsteeny4ever]

feel sorry for mexico

[roachmobile]

So instead of curbing the demand, we spend on curbing the supply. Billions have been poured into this problem with it only getting worse.

Back in the pre-prohibition days you could buy coca, opium or pot as medicine in any drug store. It seems the drug companies and arms dealers are the only ones winning the war on drugs.

[allgoraro]

This is the result of the american government spreading its garbage drug war and paying off corrupt governments like Calderons who take the money from the U.S. and then have the nerve to blame the U.S. for having the right to bear arms; something mexicans have had removed from thier list of "rights". So the blame is transferred to the U.S. and we are supposed to suffer for the failure of the drug war policies. What a stupid mess.

[jclayton59466]

Deep man. Very deep. This situation hurts

[jerkinp]

The War on Drugs is like the War on Terrorism it has not stopped.

[TheDemonPazuzu]

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[RomeoneedsaJuliet]

ok this time in English lol... Seriously, what did you just say?

[TheDemonPazuzu]

A state of war, such as the misnamed "war on terror," exists as an excuse for domestic tyranny, such as enabling passage of the horribly misnamed Patriot Acts I and II.

[RomeoneedsaJuliet]

uh, ok .

[ArchNME]

Tens of thousands dead, hundred of thousands in prison. The war on drugs is a failure. The entire hemisphere needs to just legalize. Anything is better than this.

[FlatulenceFox]

War on drugs? What war on drugs?!?

[gregwi562]

The War On Drugs, Inc.

[wcarlpdrysdale]

let me grow my own !

[ebruceii]

While it will always face stiff opposition here in the States, legalization, taxation, and control of illegal drugs is the only way to stop the bloodshed. The real harmful drugs are the ones in our medicine cabinets. Statistics don't lie.

[GiovannaNYC]

ebruceii- If legalizing illegal drugs is the only way to stop the bloodshed in Mexico then you are saying that we should also legalize cocaine and heroine because those drugs are also included in this drug war. So these drugs are not harmful? When and if you have kids will you give them to your children? You have no choice if it is legal!

[exacerbatedtaboo]

If you legalize marijuana alone it would cut off over 75% of the drug cartels money to supply things like cocaine and heroin. Mexico or Columbia is not fully to blame for this problem. No matter how much the media wants to paint it that way. First off there's a demand for it in the states. Secondly, our own government ships the shit in here by the tons so most of the trafficking that are from hard drugs comes from the US government.

[GiovannaNYC]

Bullshit! Stop talking out of your ass!

[exacerbatedtaboo]

Do your research. I've done mine. You have no idea what you're talking about and it shows. How do you think they get their money? From selling and growing marijuana, then they take that money and put it into cocaine and herion. Here's something else you may not know. 4/5 of our drug budget is spent on marijuana posession alone, only 1/5 of it goes to things like coke, crack, meth etc. Research that before you spout out another bullshit answer.

[GiovannaNYC]

Yeah ok I'll take a drug advocates/addicts word for it!

[exacerbatedtaboo]

You're advocating the prison industrial complex so why not advocate legalizing drugs? I don't feel bad for that but what make you think I'm a drug addict? I'm going to make a wild ass assumption and say you're a christian. Am I right? Thought so....I actually research what I talk about unlike yourself who really has no idea. Do some research ya tard.

[RomeoneedsaJuliet]

We're talking about marijuana not other drugs. 50% percent of drug cartel revenue comes from Marijuana alone. So there you go.

[GiovannaNYC]

There you go!

[dadonator07]

Legalize!

[awerner2007]

NOOOO!!!!! then the cia and other goverment org. would stop gettin kick backs

[kickthecatsballs]

Legalize cocaine? nah, weed? fine, its not that bad. but to legalize cocaine? that would spill chaos.

[dadonator07]

lol i meant legalize weed, because weed is %50 of what finances these cartels.

[ebruceii]

Thanks for not bothering to read my ENTIRE comment. Did you miss the CONTROL part I mentioned? Obviously. Nobody said drugs are not harmful. And what kind of idiot would gives drugs to kids? That is the dumbest question I've ever been asked, seriously. More people die from prescribed meds every year in this country than illegal drugs. And YES, you DO still have a choice about what you put in your body whether legal or illegal.

[Steadno]

if there is a want and money to buy it will NEVER end!

[mumbels24]

Hmm. IMAGINE THAT, other groups have picked up where Pablo left off.

Never would have seen that happen.

[nokow]

thanx for the good infos