Mexico's president wants to change how the drug war is fought, and he may be heading for a showdown with Trump
Mexico's president has announced plans to revise the Merida Initiative and to decriminalize drugs and pursue national development over drug prohibition
Business Insider
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Mexico's drug policies could be in for some sweeping changes, and with them the country's relations with the United States. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his administration would seek to revise the Merida Initiative, the $3 billion US aid package that has largely funded Mexico's war on drugs. In a press conference May 9, Lopez Obrador, widely known in Mexico as AMLO, said his administration does not "want aid for the use of force, we want aid for development." The announcement came shortly after the Mexican government released a National Development Plan for the next five years that proposes decriminalizing all drugs in Mexico.
