NUESTRA APARENTE RENDICIÓN QUEREMOS CONSTRUIR PAZ Y DIÁLOGO. POR ESO ESTAMOS AQUÍ

Points: the Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society is a great resource to read about the way the narrative on the history of drugs has been constructed and thus, for us, understand the task to end prohibition better.  The information is valuable and pertinent,  and situates the reader on a true context where thinking solutions towards the end of drug related violence all over the world should take place. In this occasion we are proud to showcase a translated piece “When Drugs Were Legal in Mexico” by NAR’s very own and talented Froylán Enciso, who shares with us his doctoral research on the history of drug trade in Sinaloa via his blog Postales Fantásticas. (Froylán also publishes pieces…

by Juan Carlos Guerra     Protesters flocked around central plazas throughout Mexico on February the 1st condemning the most recent political intentions of reverting the fundamental piece of legislation that established the healthy separation of church and state, which was seen through by Benito Juarez’s presidency with the signing of the 1857 liberal constitution. His plan was to catapult Mexico into a modern and secular republic, hence to achieve this the Catholic Church was stripped of its power over state affairs. But the latter is now coordinating (with political support) its comeback as an official political power, and is bent on  re-establishing its dominance of public conscience and culture in a country that is experiencing a political power vacuum and social…