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Current anti narcotic methods fail in the squo -Mexican Drug Cartel strategies under the "Merida initiative" has not reduced drug trade
Brewer 2009 (Stephanie Erin Brewer, Stephanie Brewer is the International Legal Officer at the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center in Mexico City. Rethinking the Merida Initiative: Why the U.S. Must Change Course in its Approach to Mexico’s Drug War 2009 Human Rights Brief Human Rights Brief Spring, 2009 Human Rights Brief 16 Hum. Rts. Br. 9)J.R
In addition to these concerns, the consistently ineffective track record of frontal-combat
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beginning with U.S. foreign aid programs including the Merida Initiative.
U.S. Military war on drugs in Mexico has lead to worst conditions and systematic violence all this for the low cost of social services
Gautreau, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, 2012(Ginette Léa, To Rid the World of the Drug Scourge: A Human Security Perspective on the War on Drugs in Colombia and Mexico, Paterson Review of International Affairs (2012) 12: 61–83, http://diplomatonline.com/mag/pdf/Gautreau_-Human_Security_and_War_on_Drugs.pdf)
Like corruption, drug trafficking permeates national borders and ¶ impacts Colombia and Mexico’s relations
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deeper issues that allow the drug trade to succeed within ¶ their borders.
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Brewer 2009 (Stephanie Erin Brewer, Stephanie Brewer is the International Legal Officer at the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center in Mexico City. Rethinking the Merida Initiative: Why the U.S. Must Change Course in its Approach to Mexico’s Drug War 2009 Human Rights Brief Human Rights Brief Spring, 2009 Human Rights Brief 16 Hum. Rts. Br. 9)G.L
As drug-related violence surges in northern Mexico, U.S. government
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continues to influence the approach to drug trafficking deployed by the Mexican government.
Dean Et. Al. 2012(William, THE WAR ON MEXICAN CARTELS, Institute of Politics, pages 7-8William Dean Laura Derouin Mikhaila Fogel Elsa Kania Tyler Keefe James McCune Valentina Perez Anthony Ramicone Robin Reyes Andrew Seo Minh Trinh Alex Velez-Green Colby Wilkason September 2012) http://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files_new/research-policy-papers/TheWarOnMexicanCartels.pdf-http://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files_new/research-policy-papers/TheWarOnMexicanCartels.pdf)
The Mexican "Drug War" has killed between 30,000 and 40,
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and trading routes. The result is a ¶ new wave of killings.
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ’4(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn) (Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
This large and at first sight "messy" Part VII is central to this
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including the house gun and gated communities; and reversed feelings of victimization).
Small farming is key to development in Latin America and the Caribbean bolstering their economic gains is key to poverty reduction and security of food which leads to food sovereignty
Nwanze ’09 (is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency.) The author Kanayo F.http://www.ifad.org/events/op/2009/editorial_brazil.htm (J.R)
The impact of the international financial crisis on the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC
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of agricultural research to allow new and improved technologies to be developed and shared
Gautreau, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, 2012
(Ginette Léa, To Rid the World of the Drug Scourge: A Human Security Perspective on the War on Drugs in Colombia and Mexico, Paterson Review of International Affairs (2012) 12: 61–83, http://diplomatonline.com/mag/pdf/Gautreau_-Human_Security_and_War_on_Drugs.pdf)
In its effort to eradicate drug trafficking, the War on Drugs threatens the economic
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. . the importance of offering them ~viable~ alternative economic opportunities."
In this light, it is clear that drug policies should focus more on economic
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rural communities— particularly in the Puntomayo region—have seen little progress.
Food sovereignty with an emphasis on small farmers markets is key to combating hunger and poverty
Moore (Farm industry analyst) October 31, 2003 (Melissa, "Food Sovereignty: global rallying cry of farmers movements", Backgrounder, Volume 9, Issue 4, http://www.foodfirst.org/fr/node/47-http://www.foodfirst.org/fr/node/47)
As corporate-driven economic globalization and runaway free trade policies devastate rural communities around
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on local markets and economies, is essential to fighting hunger and poverty.
Without food sovereignty hunger grows, people starve, and unemployment goes up
Moore (Farm industry analyst) October 31, 2003 (Melissa, "Food Sovereignty: global rallying cry of farmers movements", Backgrounder, Volume 9, Issue 4, http://www.foodfirst.org/fr/node/47-http://www.foodfirst.org/fr/node/47)
According to Via Campesina, the international farmers’ and peasants’ movement, "food sovereignty
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and a mixture of traditional knowledge and sustainable, agroecologically based farming practices.¶
Ivana Milojevi? 2001. The University of Queensland, Australia. Gender, Peace and Terrestrial Futures:
Alternatives to Terrorism and War. http://www.metafuture.org/articlesbycolleagues/IvanaMilojevic/Ivana_Milojevic_-_Gender_peace_and_terrestrial_futures.htm
Social and economic strategies require radical transformation and restructuring of societies and economies. This
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("The Ohio Story", in Peterson and Runyan, 1999:120).
Demands for de-militarisation are underlined by the more acute awareness that peace is
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strategically, support the efforts and struggles toward global peace and global security.