Presidente de Uruguay asegura no defender legalización de
marihuana
http://www.tvnotas.com.mx/2013/12/01/C-56726-presidente-de-uruguay-asegura-no-defender-legalizacion-de-marihuana.php
José Mujica afirmó que preferiría que esta droga no
existiera.
El presidente de Uruguay, José Mujica, descartó ser un
defensor de la marihuana, cuya producción y venta será regulada en el corto
plazo en ese país sudamericano, informó hoy el diario brasileño Folha de Sao
Paulo.
En entrevista que
publica la edición digital del
periódico, Mujica aseveró: "No defiendo la marihuana, incluso me gustaría
que ella no existiera. Ningún vicio es bueno. Vamos a regular un mercado que ya
existe y no podemos cerrar los ojos a eso".
Puntualizó que
"la vía represiva (contra la marihuana) fracasó", por lo que su
gobierno optó por reglamentar su producción y venta, la cual estará controlada
por el Estado.
"Pedimos al
mundo que nos ayude a realizar esta experiencia, que nos permita adoptar un
experimento socio-político para un problema grave que es el narcotráfico",
aseveró el mandatario uruguayo.
Mujica enfatizó:
"Si descubrimos cosas que pueden servir como herramienta para la humanidad y si ese
experimento en la vida real vale la pena, podemos ser un ejemplo".
Los consumidores de
marihuana, unos 200 mil en Uruguay, deberán contar con una licencia para tener
una planta en su casa o comprar en los establecimientos que tendrá el Estado.
La ley que regula el
mercado de la marihuana será votada esta semana por el Senado, donde el
gobierno ya cuenta con los votos necesarios, tras lo cual la normativa quedará
en condiciones de ser promulgada por el Ejecutivo para que entre en vigencia en
2014.
Quienes consuman
mariguana, uruguayos o extranjeros residentes, deberán contar con una licencia
que les permitirá comprar hasta 40 gramos por mes.
José Mujica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Mujica
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano,: born 20 May
1935. is an Uruguayan politician, and President of Uruguay since 2010. A former
guerrilla fighter and a member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing
parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005
to 2008 and a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won
the 2009 presidential election and took office as President on 1 March 2010.
He has been described as "the world's 'poorest'
president", as he donates around 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary
to charities to benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs.
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Jose Mujica: 'I earn more than I need'
The man described as the world's 'poorest president'
discusses Uruguay's
move to legalise
marijuana.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2013/10/jose-mujica-i-earn-more-than-i-need-2013102294729420734.html
President Jose Mujica, the world's 'poorest' president, has
surprised the world by making Uruguay
the first country to entirely legalise marijuana.
A law already passed in the lower house of Congress and
expected to pass in the Senate later this year would make Uruguay the first
country in the world to license and enforce rules for the production,
distribution and sale of marijuana for adult consumers.
Uruguay
is hoping to act as a potential test case for an idea slowly gaining steam
across Latin America - that the legalisation
and regulation of some drugs could combat the cartel violence devastating much
of the region.
Mujica's recent speech to the UN General Assembly denouncing
excess and frivolity, also received global attention:
"We have sacrificed the old immaterial Gods, and now we
are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organises our economy, our
politics, our habits, our lives and even provides us with rates and credit
cards and gives us the appearance of happiness," he said.
"It seems that we have been born only to consume, and
to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration
and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto marginalised."
He may look like a working class grandfather, but
78-year-old Mujica is a man with a powerful message, a leader who is a one of a
kind.
Also known as Pepe Mujica, he refused to move to the
luxurious house the Uruguayan state provides for its leaders, and chose instead
to stay in the modest home he shares with his senator wife in the capital.
His lifestyle and the fact that he donates 90 percent of his
salary to charity has earned him the label 'the poorest president in the
world'.
"Those who describe me so are the poor ones," he
says. "My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those
who need too much are never satisfied."
Mujica is a man who practices the simplicity he preaches and
never minces words, a style some of his countrymen criticise as unpresidential,
but which makes him a hero to others.
On this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, President Jose Mujica
discusses his peculiar approach towards marijuana and drug trafficking, his
particular way of living and understanding life, and the repercussions the
country's new policies, if approved, might have in the region.
Presidente colombiano reconoce que narcotráfico no terminó
con Pablo Escobar
http://www.tvnotas.com.mx/2013/12/01/C-56722-presidente-colombiano-reconoce-que-narcotrafico-no-termino-con-pablo-escobar.php
El presidente de Colombia,
Juan Manuel Santos, reconoció, en la víspera del
vigésimo aniversario de la muerte de Pablo Escobar, que el negocio del narcotráfico no terminó con el fallecimiento del capo de la cocaína y
que aunque ha habido avances en la lucha contra ese flagelo, "falta mucho
para acabarlo".
Santos hizo esta reflexión en un artículo publicado en un
suplemento de prensa de la Policía Nacional de Colombia dedicado a la muerte de
Escobar, quien fue abatido por esa institución el 2 de diciembre de 1993 en un
tejado de un barrio popular de Medellín.
"Veinte años
después tenemos que decir que, así como
el problema no nació con Escobar, tampoco terminó con él. Desde su muerte,
hemos visto transformaciones trascendentales para la institucionalidad
colombiana", opinó el mandatario.
Santos destacó el
fortalecimiento de la Policía en el combate de la corrupción y de la inmersión
del narcotráfico en las estructuras del Estado, la consolidación de la Fiscalía
en sus capacidades investigativas y la reducción de los niveles de impunidad
con respecto a hace 20 años.
Además, remarcó que
el país ha vivido en estas dos décadas una evolución en las condiciones de
seguridad y "a diferencia de lo que padecimos en la década de los noventa,
las amenazas a jueces y magistrados son hoy más la excepción que la regla".
"El problema del narcotráfico
subsiste, es cierto, y nos falta mucho para acabarlo. Pero hoy podemos decir
que hemos avanzado con determinación, con persistencia y con resultados
visibles en la reducción que esta actividad que sólo deja, como Escobar, sangre,
corrupción y violencia", concluyó el presidente.
En los últimos años
han caído los capos contemporáneos más buscados de Colombia y Estados Unidos,
como Diego Montoya Sánchez, alias "Don Diego", arrestado en 2007 y
extraditado en 2009, y Daniel "El Loco" Barrera, identificado por el
Gobierno como "el último gran capo" del país, y quien fue capturado
en Venezuela en 2012 y extraditado también en julio pasado.
Juan Manuel Santos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón , born 10 August 1951 is the
32nd and current President of the Republic
of Colombia. An economist
by profession and a journalist by trade, Santos
is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the
majority shareholders of the Editorial House El Tiempo until its sale in 2007
to Editorial Planeta. Shortly after graduating from the University
of Kansas, he joined the National
Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia as an Economic Advisor and delegate to
the International Coffee Organization in London,
where he also attended the London School of Economics and Political Science. In
1981, he was appointed Deputy Director of El Tiempo, becoming its Director two
years later.
Santos
first married Silvia Amaya Londoño, a film director and television presenter,
but divorced three years later having no children together. He then married
María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera, or "Tutina" as she is known to
those close to her, an industrial designer he had met while she worked as a
private secretary at the Ministry of Communications and he was Deputy Director
of El Tiempo. Together they had three children, Martín (b. 1989), María Antonia
(b. 1991), and Esteban (b. 1994)
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Why I'm Talking to Terrorists in Colombia
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303796404579099044159198538
With international help, my country is moving toward ending
a brutal 50-year conflict.
Peace in Colombia
is finally within reach. In the midst of turbulent times in the Middle East and
other parts of the world, there is an untold story of hope and success emerging
out of the Americas.
It is a story that reaffirms the role of responsible national
leadership and effective international action in today's world.
Over the past decade, Colombia has undergone an
extraordinary transformation in terms of improved security, economic growth and
social development. Our country has gone from near-failed state to being
invited for membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development in less than a generation.
We have achieved this despite a major obstacle. A brutal,
50-year internal armed conflict that has left over 220,000 dead, countless
others wounded, and deep scars in our national psyche.
But for more than a year now, the government of Colombia and
representatives of the FARC guerrilla group have been conducting serious
negotiations in order to bring an end to this conflict.
The conditions for peace have been created gradually over
the years through a combination of military strength, the rule of law, economic
reforms, progressive social policies and, crucially, the support of the
international community.
It is not often that the interests of the U.N., the European
Union, the Organization of American States and countries like the United States, Cuba,
Venezuela, Chile and Norway—among others—converge for a
common purpose.
But in this case they have, because the opportunity is real.