Simplemente di no: “Bailando sobre las cenizas de la guerra contra las drogas”

Este cortometraje destaca muchas estadísticas preocupantes en torno a la guerra de los Estados Unidos contra las drogas, los arrestos relacionados con estupefacientes y la creciente tasa de encarcelamiento por delitos de drogas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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Documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki told the performers in his new video to imagine they were "dancing on the ashes of the drug war," he says.

The short was launched to coincide with the legislative push for the Smarter Sentencing Act, a bill sponsored by Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) that would reduce the length of mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses, and would free thousands of people currently serving sentences handed down during a period of harsh crackdowns and dramatic racial disparities in sentencing and enforcement.

This short film highlights many troubling statistics as regards the U.S. war on drugs, drug-related arrests and the higher imprisonment rate for drug crimes.

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