Mexican President's Visit to Stanford Meets with Objections Due to His Drug Prohibition War
Mexican President Felipe Calderón has been invited to give the commencement address at Stanford University in June, but an editorial in this weekâs El Mensajero calls it the "wrong choice" due to his prohibitionist drug war. El Mensajero editor MarÃa MejÃa writes that the point of a commencement address is to inspire students, adding that if she were a student, she wouldnât feel inspired by Calderón. "I donât admire his war against drug trafficking...I canât believe that more than 30,000 dead during his administration due to violence stemming from narcotrafficking is something that could inspire me," she wrote.
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