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04 August 2010
MEXICO: Calderon Revises Casualty Figures Upward To 28,000 Killed; May Consider Drug Legalization.
BBC/ Officials now report that more than 28,000 have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in 2006...an increase of 3,000 from previous estimates. Calderon also says that he is opposed to legalizing drugs but would be open to a debate about it. Three former presidents, Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico, Cesar Gaviria of Colombia, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brasil, have called the US-led war on drugs a failure and called for the legalisation of marijuana to be considered.