This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchett. War on drugs announced in the 20th century.

The war on drugs much in doubt in the 21st century, not only because drugs change all

the time and so does the population, but the scale of the benefits exceeds any imaginary

number and what is to be done. The U.S. has the DEA and a lot of money devoted to drug

fighting, especially in the United States. The hard drugs handled by the cartels across

the Mexican border, but I welcome Alison Federica of the geopolitical futures. She's an analyst

writing about a new direction not from the United States, but from Mexico City under Amlo

the very popular powerful president, senior figure in the America's world, and Gustavo Petro,

the new president of Colombia. These men are looking to work together to solve some of the troubles

with health first. Alison, a very good evening to you. What is the vision for Mexico City in Bogota

about what is to be done? And I see that it's not more gunplay. Good evening to you. Good evening

to you. Their vision is basically a reaction to what's been going on for the past few years,

which is we've done a security first approach. It hasn't worked. We still have a lot of cocaine

issues and drug problems throughout the entire region with production, transportation,

and exportation all across the world. And now what they want to try to do is what they consider

the root cause, which is taking a social development approach, viewing the drug problem as a public

health concern, and trying to address things like education, employment, income for all of the

participants in the supply chain of cocaine production, such that you get them out of that

field of work and develop these communities in a way that they have economic viability and livelihood

in a way that involves the government and state presence in these remote areas where right now

the drug trafficking groups are the ones that are basically calling the shots and also

acting as a pseudo-government in terms of helping the public meet their needs.

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