Causes and Solutions

Many will read this and say that your response is inherently anti-USA. I don't think that is the case at all, this is a recognition of the very significant part that the USA plays in the world and in Latin America in part. We have to recognize the mistakes we have made as a country and contribute accordingly to its solution. The United States has a unique ability to affect positive change to resolve the root cause of this problem and in the end it will benefit us all even though some will say we are giving our money away to foreign countries. Those countries and citizens also bear responsibility but we can contribute to their internal solutions through policies and actions in a way that few other nations have.

Move away from prohibition towards regulation and treatment.
Move away from foreign diplomacy that is dictated purely by economic gains towards diplomacy that promotes liberal democracy in all its many forms.