Security & Strategic Review June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

The strongest call for a major review of antidrug policies so far has been issued by a group of world leaders mustered by the same Latin American trio of former presidents — Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and César Gaviria of Colombia — who, two years ago, set the ball rolling within their own region. Their main message is that the ‘war on drugs' has failed so badly that changing course has become a matter of urgency.