Latin American Program in the News: Propuesta de legalizar drogas es "distracción", dice zar antridrogas de EEUU
Gil Kerlikowske’s comments on the legalization of drugs were quoted in this article. Kerlikowske participated in the National Conversation: “Drug Policy: A 21st Century Approach to Reform” held at the Wilson Center. (In Spanish)
La propuesta de legalizar la droga como una vía para acabar con el crimen organizado es una "distracción", afirmó este jueves el zar antidrogas estadounidense, Richard Gil Kerlikowske, a una semana del viaje del presidente Barack Obama a México y Centroamérica.
"La sugerencia de que la legalización de la droga causará que el crimen organizado se disuelva es una falacia y una distracción de los esfuerzos continentales por desmantelar a los violentos grupos criminales transnacionales", afirmó Gil Kerlikowske.
El crimen organizado "recurrirá a casi cualquier otra actividad ilegal que les produzca dinero" de abandonar el narcotráfico, dijo Gil Kerlikowske, jefe de la Oficina de Control Antidrogas en la Casa Blanca, durante un evento en el centro de análisis Woodrow Wilson.
"Quisiera que la solución al crimen organizado transnacional fuera tan directa y sencilla. Pero no lo es", afirmó.
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
