UK Deputy Prime Minister Clegg Slams Mexico During Pena Nieto Visit teleSUR
go to original March 5, 2015

“We should remember the estimated 100,000 people killed in Mexico … since 2006,” Clegg wrote in a joint article with Richard Branson. (Reuters)

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg slammed the War on Drugs Wednesday, specifically berating Mexico’s effort as Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is in the country on a state visit.

Clegg’s comments came from an opinion article on the War on Drugs in the Guardian, which was co-written by British billionaire Richard Branson, in which they label it “an abject failure.”

“Since the (drug) ‘war’ was declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971, we have spent over US$1.5 trillion trying to eradicate drugs from our societies,” they denounced, adding that, “Yet the criminal market continues to grow, driving unimaginable levels of profit for organized crime.”

The powerful pair also directly targeted the Mexican president's security policy, saying that “as Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, visits the U.K., we should remember the estimated 100,000 people killed in Mexico alone since 2006.”

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