Latin American Allies Resist U.S. Strategy in Drug Fight

A major push back is occurring with Latin America. After forty years of harsh regulations that have been brought down by the US on drug production in the lower Americas. Countries like Colombia and Bolivia have begun to disregard the tents of the "War on Drugs". these tents have included things like blocking aerial spraying of coca plants or regulations on marijuana crops. The consensus is that the same tenets and been in place for decades and nothing has changed so the countries might as well reduce the bloodshed and overflowing prisons from resisting the drug trade. Latin American leaders went to the United Nations to call for new approaches to the drug problems, specifically the decriminalization of drug use. This is an example of the US' waning influence over South America. It will be interesting to see what the US will do to attempt to whip Latin America back into the War on Drugs.

-Kevin Nalefski

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/world/americas/latin-america-and-us-split-in-drug-fight.html?ref=world&_r=0