New push at OAS for US to alter anti-drug approach

A family walks past a soldier standing guard at the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, the venue of the 43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, OAS, in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Counternarcotics and counterterrorism strategy, as well as human rights throughout the Western Hemisphere, are expected to be main topics of discussion. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A family walks past a soldier standing guard at the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, the venue of the 43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, OAS, in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Counternarcotics and counterterrorism strategy, as well as human rights throughout the Western Hemisphere, are expected to be main topics of discussion. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A soldier stands guard near the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, the venue of the 43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, OAS, in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Counternarcotics and counterterrorism strategy, as well as human rights throughout the Western Hemisphere, are expected to be main topics of discussion. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he arrives to La Aurora air force base in Guatemala City, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. At left is Rita Claverie, vice foreign minister of Guatemala, and at right is Arnold Chacon, U.S. ambassador to Guatemala. Kerry is in Guatemala for the annual general assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS). (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, left, and Guatemala's Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera arrive for a press conference in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Monday, June 3, 2013. Starting Tuesday, the 43rd General Assembly of the OAS begins in Antigua. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

ANTIGUA, Guatemala (AP) ? Latin American countries frustrated by the United States' refusal to change its drug war strategy are pushing the U.S. government to look at alternatives to a fight that has killed tens of thousands in a region beset by drug cartels.

Guatemalan Foreign Relations Secretary Fernando Carrera said the subject of drugs will top the agenda at the Organization of American States' General Assembly, which began its three-day session in Antigua on Tuesday evening.

"We have already reached a consensus and agreed that our final declaration will include changes to the current anti-drug model," Carrera said. "We already have some ideas on how to change drug-fighting policies."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs William R. Brownfield were attending the meeting, which comes two weeks after the OAS released a report calling for a serious discussion on legalizing marijuana.

The OAS study doesn't make specific proposals and found there is "no significant support" among the OAS's 35 member states for legalizing cocaine, the illegal drug with the greatest impact on Latin America, or other harsher drugs.

The study was commissioned after some Latin American leaders called on President Barack Obama to rethink the war on drugs at last year's Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

It urges "assessing existing signals and trends that lean toward the decriminalization or legalization of the production, sale and use of marijuana. Sooner or later decisions in this area will need to be taken."

The Obama administration, however, believes it has already adopted a comprehensive counter-narcotics approach that melds cutting demand for drugs and treatment with law enforcement and interdiction of supply.

A senior U.S. official traveling with Kerry said the OAS would endorse that multi-pronged strategy and pointed out that there is no consensus either within the hemisphere or in individual countries on legalization.

This is true even in the United States, where several states have legalized marijuana, said the official, who was not authorized to preview Kerry's discussions publicly. The U.S is open to discussing ideas, but will not as a federal government support decriminalization.

Human Rights Watch urged the OAS countries to explore legal regulation as a way to help stem the violence of organized crime and drug traffickers inflicted on many Latin American countries. The international human rights group said that criminalizing personal drug use "undermine" basic human rights.

"The 'drug war' has taken a huge toll in the Americas, from the carnage of brutal drug trafficking organizations to the egregious abuses by security forces fighting them," the group's Americas director, Jose Miguel Vivanco, said in a statement. "Governments should find new policies to address the harm drug use causes, while curbing the violence and abuse that have plagued the current approach."

Dozens of human rights organizations from Canada to Argentina signed a letter Monday asking for leaders "to discuss and rethink the existing initiatives with a view to place human rights in the center of the debate."

Among those countries pushing for a dialogue on drugs in the Western Hemisphere are many who have been close allies of the United States' fight against drugs, including Colombia and Guatemala.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was among those urging a discussion of legalization. He said that while his country extradites hundreds of alleged drug traffickers for trial in the U.S., criminals turn to other countries where law enforcement is weaker. Central America and Mexico in particular have been hit hard as traffickers shifted operations there.

President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, a hard-hit cocaine transit country along with neighboring Honduras, made headlines shortly after taking office last year when he proposed legalizing drugs.

"The message has been sent that the hemisphere wants to look at alternative approaches and wants the United States to be part of that discussion," said Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin American program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Arnson said Latin American leaders will use the meeting to spur a discussion that can be sustained as countries try to go forward with a new strategy.

"Latin American countries will mostly be looking for ways to diminish the violence and the negative effects on their societies and their economies posed by organized crime and they may increasingly diverge with the United States over what policies to adapt," she said.

While the OAS meeting promises to serve as a forum to begin discussing the legalization of marijuana, talking about harder drugs like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines may be harder to bring to the table, Arnson said.

"It's one thing to say, 'Let's break the ice on talking about these issues,' and it's another thing to come forward with concrete proposals for dealing with harder drugs that many countries can sign on to, including the United States," she said.

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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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SINGAPORE (AP) ? Forty-five years ago, as the Vietnam war raged on, Army Spc. Chuck Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of combat serving in the Mekong Delta ? both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.

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While Hagel and Dung knew of each other's service in Vietnam, they had never met. So when they spoke on the sidelines of the dinner, they had the chance to exchange war stories.

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Hagel also recalled family war history during a private meeting Saturday with Philippines Secretary of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin. According to defense officials, Hagel noted that his father served in that country during WWII with the 13th Army Air Corps. Officials said Hagel told Gazmin that during a visit to the Philippines in the 1980s, he was surprised to see a photo of his father in a foxhole on display in an exhibit ? the same photo that had hung in the Hagel family home.

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FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Military prosecutors said arrogance drove the U.S. soldier who went on trial on Monday accused of the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history through the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website three years ago.

But at the opening of the court-martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, his defense lawyer portrayed him as a naive young soldier who had leaked the documents, combat videos and other data because he wanted to reveal the human cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Manning case has pitted civil liberties groups who want more transparency in military and diplomatic affairs against the government, which accuses Manning of endangering lives and damaging diplomacy by leaking classified information.

Manning, a former intelligence analyst, faces a possible life sentence without parole if convicted at his court-martial in Fort Meade, Maryland, for leaking more than 700,000 secret documents in 2010.

"This is a case of what happens when arrogance meets access to classified networks," lead prosecutor U.S. Army Captain Joe Morrow said in his opening statement. "This had great interest to our adversaries and to our enemies."

The slightly built Manning, wearing dress uniform, sat between his lawyers at the defense table. He faces 21 counts, including the most serious one of aiding the enemy, and prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917. Manning pleaded guilty in February to 10 lesser charges, but prosecutors rejected the pleas and are pursuing their original charges.

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Manning's lawyer David Coombs described his client as a humanist, "placing people first, placing value on human lives." He called the soldier "young, naive, but good-intentioned."

Coombs said Manning, who is gay, was struggling with his sexual identity when he arrived in Iraq in November 2009 and was conflicted by his exposure to war and a trove of military data.

A Christmas Eve 2009 bomb attack on a U.S. convoy that left U.S. personnel unhurt but wounded four members of an Iraqi family and killed one was a catalyst for Manning, Coombs said.

He felt the material he had access to should be made public, "showing the true nature of 21st-century asymmetric warfare," Coombs said.

Manning believed the material he released would not harm U.S. interests as it lacked operational value. He thought that a U.S. military video showing an 2007 Apache gunship attack that killed 12 people in Baghdad, including two Reuters staffers, had already been made available to journalists, Coombs said.

Morrow told the court Manning downloaded 251,287 State Department cables at the rate of more than 1,000 per hour.

Manning, who has been jailed since his arrest three years ago, is charged forwarding the classified documents to WikiLeaks, which began exposing the secrets.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about allegations of rape and sexual assault, which he denies.

The first witness in the case was Sergeant First Class Thomas Smith, a military investigator. He seized Manning's computers, disks and other equipment at the Iraq base east of Baghdad, which he described as being "in the middle of nowhere."

Under defense questioning, Specialist Eric Baker, Manning's roommate in Iraq, described him as loner who spent most of his time on a computer.

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The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, said last month she would close parts of the trial to the public to protect classified material.

Manning's court-martial is expected to run until at least late August.

Lind began the trial by asking Manning procedural questions, including whether he was willing to have the case decided by a judge rather than a jury and whether he was satisfied with his defense team.

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"I'm here to have solidarity with my devoted brother Bradley Manning," West said outside the courtroom. "He is a courageous young brother."

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Scott Malone, Grant McCool and David Brunnstrom)

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