The death of a black man in a police car in Brazil has sparked huge protests. Police violence and racism need to become top election campaign issues if things are going to change, writes DW’s Astrid Prange de Oliveira.
inside of families. forgive me, we don t have much time, sorry, ingrid, to interrupt, but there is a time lag on the line. i want to ask you about one specific policy area, which you say can help colombia broaden its peace and corruption, and that is your notion that all narcotics, all illegal drugs, should be legalised as part of a more universal shift of approach towards the drugs war. do you, in any sense, think that is practical politics? would you really do that if you were president? i think that we need to be careful with terminology,
all illegal drugs, should be legalised as part of a more universal shift of approach towards the drugs war. do you, in any sense, think that is practical politics? would you really do that if you were president? i think that we need to be careful with terminology, because legalisation means open markets. we don t want that. we want to decriminalising consuming of drugs. and we want to do it because we need to end the trafficking. i mean, today, as you know, drug trafficking is financing the war in colombia, corruption in colombia, but also terrorism in the world. and this is a fact. i mean, we have been in the war on drugs for a0 years with no results,