But the language used by the Obama administration to describe the violence and state corruption that snakes from the Andes to the US border is starting to capture new thinking on narcotics. Three former Latin American presidents, Mexico’s second richest man, Ricardo Salinas, and the Supreme Court of Argentina, among others, have criticized the war on drugs as a manifest failure that has lowered street prices, fueled production, and undermined weak states.
但奥巴马政府形容从安第斯山脉流向美国边境的暴力和国家腐败时所用的语言正开始抓住毒品问题的全新思维。 值得一提的是三位前拉美总统，墨西哥排名第二的富翁里卡多·萨利纳斯以及阿根廷最高法院已经批评禁毒战争是一场显而易见的失败，它拉低了房地产价格、推升毒品产量，并对弱国造成了破坏。