Redrawing the lines: cocaine policy in Latin America

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

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Regional leaders recognise the abject failure of the war on drugs. We speak with Colombia’s president about some bold new ideas to tackle the problem. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is a big gamble on the metaverse—but the real risk is that the company still known as Facebook is waning. And a zippy ride through England’s electric-scooter trial. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
0:07.0	Today from London I'm your host Jason Palmer.
0:10.2	Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:18.3	Mark Zuckerberg staked a big bet when he changed the name of the company he leads from Facebook
0:23.7	to Metta.
0:24.7	What's clear is that people are leaving Facebook.
0:28.0	It's not, is whether enough will show up in the metaverse he's banking on.
0:34.5	And England has extended its trial of electric scooters to see how they fit into the transportation
0:39.6	mix.
0:40.6	We ask whether it's got more people out of their cars and just how green e-scooters really
0:45.0	are.
0:46.0	And of course we took a couple of them for a spin.
0:56.0	Just up though.
1:03.0	Want to join me here?
1:07.6	Want to be seated please ladies and gentlemen.
1:12.0	America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse.
1:18.8	In order to fight and defeat this enemy it is necessary to wage a new all out of fencing.
1:26.1	In June 1971 President Richard Nixon started a war that's still going on.
1:32.4	In the intervening years the war on drugs has proved as deadly as many more traditional
1:37.4	conflicts.
1:38.4	An elite Colombian police unit killed Pablo Escobar in a shootout, cornering him here in
1:43.7	this house where he had been hiding in the city of Metaheen.
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