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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
In 2011 a group of world leaders including seven ex-presidents set up The Global Commission on Drug Policy to end the 40-year 'War on Drugs' -- but wars are easier to start than they are to finish.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" is a film that follows the Commission on its mission to break the political taboo over the US-led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years. It calls for the United Nations and all...
The discovery of 72 murdered migrants in Mexico last week has directed international attention to a country in the grip of a violent war between competing drug cartels.
The Real News Network speaks to investigative journalist, Bruce Livesey, who recently returned from Mexico.
Livesey says that the reasons behind the violence in Mexico are complicated. But among them he highlights the role of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which fueled the drug trade in two ways....
