Because Latin American leaders are finally on the verge of revolt over the relentless bloodshed. In February, the new president of Guatemala, Perez Molina, proposed full drug legalization and a ceasefire with the drug lords. This had special impact since Molina is a former military general, best known for having captured the world's leading drug lord, "Chapo" Guzman. Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla seconded him with an eloquent statement: "We are not willing to be hooked onto that convoy of destruction, of militarism, of exorbitant expenditure, that distracts states from their efforts toward social investment." Though pressure from the U.S. squelched the rebellion for now, the secretary general of the Organization of American States released a statement that suggested (in the words of the New York Review of Books) that "a radical restructuring of drug legislation might be a very good thing indeed."