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Security & Strategic Review - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
The Summit of the Americas and drug legalisation
The VI Summit of the Americas, held on 14-15 April in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, has been written off by a number of commentators as a failure because it did not reach agreement on matters that were not on the agenda: the legalisation or decriminalisation of drugs; Cuba’s admission; and Argentina’s wish for hemisphere-wide endorsement of its stand on the Falkland/Malvinas sovereignty dispute. Disagreement was real enough, and it resulted in no final declaration being issued. The perception of failure, though, was largely due to misrepresentation of one non-agenda item: drug policy.
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