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Glen Olives

Glen Olives is a professor of North American Law at La Salle University, Chihuahua, Mexico, and a specialist in law and public policy. His latest academic paper “Slowly Learning the Hard Way: America’s War on Drugs and Implications for Mexico” was published in the Autonomous University of Mexico’s journal Norteamérica.

Good Politics, Bad Policy: Our Disastrous War on Drugs

December 17, 2014
Recently Mexico’s largest newspaper El Universal declared the global War on Drugs un fracaso total–a total failure. Well, I guess they should know: America’s forty-plus-year tough-love drug enforcement strategy, and Mexico’s willingness to be co-opted into putting the ...