Fighting Crime: Mexico’s Lessons for Russia

... direction came on October 15, 2012 when Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Crime and Drugs, and Secretary of State of Mexico Dr. Alejandro Poiré Romero signed an agreement on cooperation in the ongoing effort to counter TOC and drug trafficking. It offers a chance to broaden contacts with Mexico. At the same time, the United Nations, Latin American observers and statesmen all concede that the U.S. anti-drug strategy has failed. In effect, recent decades seem to suggest that banning the production, consumption and trafficking in drugs, ...