United Nations Development Program Says Mexico Drug War a Failure Proceso
go to original January 30, 2014

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The countries which have undertaken "heavy handed" policies to combat insecurity, among them Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, are where incidents of violence and executions have increased the most, and are where groups of organized crime have been the most reinforced, warned the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

The report by the UNDP "Citizen Security with a Human Face: Diagnostic and Proposals for Latin America", recently presented in Guatemala, evaluates the situation of insecurity and the governmental policies to counteract it, the EFE pointed out in a report.

The UNDP director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Heraldo Muñoz, who was given the task of presenting the report's results, stressed that "heavy-handedness has failed in these countries because it intensifies the major levels of violence and the level of criminal organization."

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Translated by Tristan Foy

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