Because Obama will be present, other leaders may seize the opportunity to share with him their views on what is increasingly called the “failed war on drugs,” the anti-drug program originally launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971. Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today’s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy: legalization.
既然奥巴马将会出席，其他领导人不会放过与他分享自己对于越来越热的“毒品战败”话题的观点的机会。这一反毒品计划最初由美国总统尼克松于1971年发起。新上任的危地马拉总统莫利纳和桑托斯及其他一些国家的首脑一起质疑现行的惩罚禁止办法，因为这样做成本太大而收效甚微，他们提出了不同的策略：合法化。