Link: http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/31/drug-war-devastation

U.S. policies that continue to fuel the escalating violence and brutality of the "war on drugs" in Central and South America. PRESIDENT OBAMA recently announced an aid package of more than $130 million to fight the narcotraficantes (narco-traffickers) in Central and Latin America. The infusion of money was announced at the Summit of the Americas in April in Cartagena, Colombia, to head off criticism of the "war on drugs"--and spreading calls to declare it a failure and end it.