Nicaragua Follows Its Own Path In Dealing With Drug Traffickers

         "The immensely colossal businesses from here, if there are no drugs around, they cannot sell their articles. So when you visually perceive things are good, that signifies drugs are around." Analysts verbalize one of the explications for that relative placidity is that Nicaragua has taken a different approach to fighting drug trafficking. Itoggle caption Juan Carlos for NPR. Donald Byers, who runs a museum about this region's history, verbally expresses Hayman was Bluefields' Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord who pumped his drug mazuma into his hometown economy. What's more, the cocaine moving through Nicaragua's territory represents a higher quota of GDP than any other Central American country, which in the words of the U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime, should give traffickers more preponderant leverage to both sow more corruption and foment violence. 

            "That's why; some bellwethers have verbally expressed, 'Let's legalize this and let the drugs flow north. Because if we don't, the gringos are going to keep swallowing drugs, while we kill each other.” In an abundance of ways, the Nicaraguan regime faces some of the same tough culls: Take on the drug trade with military might the way Honduras and El Salvador have done and jeopardize more preponderant violence, or accept corruption and sanction the drug trade to operate. In 2011, The Global Commission on Drugs, a high-profile panel of world bellwethers - including former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker - declared that the "Global war on drugs has failed." And this September, the commission followed up with a report recommending policies that work, including some legalization and inspiriting countries to endeavor regulating in lieu of precluding some aspects of the drug trade.

            This is another illustration of why the drug war is idiotic. Legalize, tax, and manage. Latin American countries are essentially fighting these cartels on our behalf. Shameful. We Americans have to pay for the "Supposed" War on Drugs...And yet people are just a phone call away from getting whatever they want, whenever they need it...A complete waste of time and money...WAKE UP..My BS detector is going off (Yes, We all have one) as should yours...We are being robbed by the Government...Billions to stop nothing. Good thing we don't use your logic, when it comes to fighting stubborn and persistent diseases and disorders. Imagine if they just taxed the drug runners openly? the place would be a paradise and have the nicest sewer system around. And the illegal drug industry would meekly comply, right? I wonder why Mexico doesn't think of that. If drugs were legal their economy would likely collapse. Drugs are freely available in America and Nicaragua and I have been both places. People are dropping like flies from dirty black market heroin on marthas vineyard. Heroin has been banned for 100 years and its cheaper and more widely available and deadlier than ever, should we fail like that for another 100 years? Hey if something fails miserably and has the opposite effect for 100 years it must be a good and effective policy! Where is it where all narcotics are taxed and regulated?