------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> We give away $70,000 a month! Come to iWin.com for your chance to win! http://us.click.yahoo.com/olMXHC/BJVCAA/4ihDAA/K4NVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> March 27, 2001 Please Distribute Widely A Narco News Global Alert Mexico-U.S. Border Bombshell: Chihuahua Governor Offers Solidarity to Neighboring Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico Gov. Patricio Martínez Says: "Drug Legalization Must Be Supported" http://www.narconews.com/martinez.html Narco News Analysis: One week after Mexican President Vicente Fox announced his agreement with the proposal to legalize drugs, the governor of the violence-torn border state of Chihuahua, Patricio Martínez García, tells Mexico's largest daily, El Universal, that he, too, favors drug legalization. Martínez, who last December received a bullet wound in the neck in an attack that many have associated with narco-trafficker efforts to destabilize the government, says that the assassination attempt and his recovery from the injury have pushed him to rethink the drug laws. Martínez, a member of the PRI party - a different party than President Fox - governs a Northern Mexican state that borders New Mexico and Texas, and that includes major areas of drug-war violence like Juárez City and Ojinaga, called for increased state and local control over the drug problem, and expressed his solidarity with the ideas of New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. Drug legalization, says this governor from the front lines of the drug war, "must be studied seriously." He said that society cannot rely on the government alone to solve its problems. "The problem of public safety is not a problem of cops and robbers. It is a problem for all society," said the latest Latin American leader to call for radical reform of the drug laws. "There are voices that say that the government is to blame for the violence." Would You Know It Without Narco News? Will You Help to Keep Us Publishing? Our April 9th Court Deadline Approaches... You can support our legal defense fund with a check to: "Drug War on Trial" c/o Attorney Thomas Lesser Lesser, Newman, Souweine & Nasser 39 Main Street Northampton, MA 01060 U.S.A. Continuing to break the information blockade... from somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
