EL PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced journalists. “Organized crime has Mexican society on the border very quiet and on its knees,” Alfredo Corchado, a correspondent in Mexico for the Dallas Morning News, said Monday at the Global Public Policy Forum on the U.S. War on Drugs, being hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso. Luis Astorga, a researcher with ….Read More