Mexico, 14 sep (EFE).-the current model of anti-drug fight that uses violence “is exhausted,” said today the participants in the Latin American Conference on drug policies held in Mexico, to highlight the need to devise a new strategy.
“The effects of such policies are not expected, since they generate many more damage than it solves,” he told Efe Graciela Touze, President of the asociación civil exchanges, one of the organizers of the event which ended today.
For two days, more than 300 experts from 40 countries, representatives of non-governmental organizations, legislators, politicians, or drug exposed their experiences to find a solution to the problems that generate the drug.
“Have been dealt with many issues, given the complexity of the matter, and it has come to the conclusion of the need to think about new models of regulation.” “The current one, based on prohibition, does not give results and generates more problems that it solves,” asserted.
During the Forum, spoke of the need decriminalize consumers, some of whom are imprisoned for carrying small quantities, which leads to overcrowding in the prisons.
“There should be a criminal prosecution punish organized crime, but must be distinguished from the chain’s weakest links”. “Proportionality of penalties has to depend on the amount that would take,” noted.
Between the presentations today agreed the Ãlvaro Henry fields Solórzano, Deputy Minister of Justice and public security of El Salvador, who raised that the legalization of drugs does not automatically solve violence “because, as with legal products, there are thefts, threats, disputes violent between the producers”.
“While a society has not overcome its problems of institutional weakness, would be difficult to find alternatives in the health field and in the field of Justice”, stated.
For the Mexican Luis González Plascencia, President of the Commission of human rights of the Federal District, the involvement of the military in the fight against drug trafficking “generated a twenty times more difficult situation”.
“We have more than 50,000 dead by decisions that tell us that it should reduce the supply.” “The legalization of drugs is probably not the only answer, but yes it would improve the situation of a lot of problems we have today,” assured.
Touze stressed that conferences such as the one held in the Mexican capital represent an opportunity to generate discussion based “not ideological speeches”, but in the discussion of “proven evidence”.
These forums show that need a larger space so that civil organizations expose their views to Governments, since it is they who are in contact with the problematic areas and know what is there, he added. EFE