The carrot law is a restriction in the time limit of sale for alcoholic beverages, established in 1996 in the cities of Bogota and Cali, in order to reduce the effect of alcohol on violence, reducing mortality by homicides, road traffic injuries and suicides. This policy was also approved by Brazil and Paraguay.
In 2007, the carrot law was established at the district of La Victoria, Lima through a municipal ordinance, which ordered the closing of liquor sale establishments on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 3:00 am and during the rest of the week at midnight, resulting in a reduction of violence by 40% mainly in young men, weekends and in the the early morning hours, with similar effects on homicide and suicide, had no effect on traffic injuries for being these essentially diurnal this county.
The results originated, on December 4th, the establishment of the carrot law with an immediate effect in Lima, leaving the rest of the surround cities a period of 3 years to establish it. During the first 6 months the violent death by homicide, suicide and road traffic injures were reduced from 622 to 465.
