<blockquote>Public opinion in Latin America and the U.S. is gradually turning against militarizing the war on drugs. Honduras <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/americas/in-honduras-deaths-make-us-rethink-drug-war.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">recently suspended</a> joint operations with the DEA after a <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_schwartz?currentPage=all">controversial raid</a> was blamed for the deaths of innocent civilians. Emboldened by marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington, current and former presidents in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Uruguay are all <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/drug-war-no-more.html">pushing to end prohibitionist drug policies.</a> Parts of Mexico are still mired in cartel-fueled chaos, but the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/mexicos-drug-war-50-000-dead-in-6-years/100299/">brutality</a> and <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/after-six-years-of-bloodshed-mexicos-drug-war-shows-little-sign-of-waning/276533/">unstaunched bloodshed</a> that marked former Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s battle with drug gangs is subsiding.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/el-chapo-and-the-faceless-future-of-mexicos-drug-war/284050/">El Chapo and the Faceless Future of Mexico's Drug War - Keegan Hamilton - The Atlantic</a>.