Guatemala's president made a formal pitch to his fellow Central American leaders over the weekend, urging them them to sign on to a regional security plan that would include legalizing drugs.
President Otto Perez Molina proposed several options for dealing with drug-related violence in Central America, including
creating a regional court to try drug trafficking cases, getting economic compensation from the United States for seized drugs and decriminalizing the transport and consumption of drugs.The leaders did not come to an agreement during Saturday's meeting in Antigua, Guatemala, but Perez Molina described the summit as a success.
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It was as successful as we were hoping, successful in that we got rid of these taboos and myths that before kept the leaders of the region from talking or debating ideas, ideas that for a long time could not be talked about openly," he said.
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli attended the meeting, which also included representatives from other Central American countries.
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