War on Drugs
Uruguay Poised to Legalize Planting Marijuana
by Chip Livingston (photo credit: Gabriel Padilha) Our reporter in Montevideo talks to people close to the legislation and international experts from the USA and the Netherlands who have traveled to Uruguay to help determine the final shape of [...]
Latest Developments in the Decriminalization of Marijuana in Latin America
Today we read that the American War on Drugs has expanded to Africa.The New York Times say “The aggressive response by the United States is also a sign of how greater attention and resources have turned to [...]
Paradise of Impunity
by Robert Joe Stout Assassinations in Mexico are not confined to criminal organizations. Political protesters, union leaders, journalists and human rights advocates are gunned down in their homes, their cars, their offices. Seldom are their slayers [...]
Human rights watch calls for investigation into killings in Honduras
The international organization Human Rights Watch insisted Thursday that the authorities in Honduras and the United States clarify the circumstances in which four people were killed during a joint military operation in La Mosquito. “The [...]
American and Honduran soldiers kill 4 civilians by mistake including 2 pregnant women
Editors Note: the past two weeks have seen announcements coming from Honduras that American DEA agents and military are being deployed to Honduras to battle drug smugglers there and are setting up radar installations. This was [...]
Obama agrees to debate the war on Drugs and Cuba emerges as a Central point focal point
Editors note: We are continuing to translate some of the Spanish language press articles on the War on Drugs and in particular the Summit of the Americas and policy developments in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia [...]
Decriminalization of Drugs to be Discussed at the Summit
The decriminalization of drugs as a strategy to fight drug trafficking will be presented as a discussion item in the VI Summit of the Americas but not as a proposal, given than there is [...]
Internal Violence and Fatique over the War on Drugs Marks the Summit of the Americas
Even since 1971 when the ex President of the USA signalled that the “number one enemy” of the United States was the drugs coming over the borders, the call for the “war on drugs” has been [...]
Update on the Summit of the Americas
The Summit of the Americas starts in Cartagena, Colombia April 9 while the most serious business of diplomacy will occur on the last two days: April 14 and April 15. There are several issues to [...]
Central American Drug Summit Proposes charging the USA for Confiscated Drugs
The open opposition of the USA to the proposal from the President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, who suggested the decriminalization of drugs as an alternative to unleashing the military on the drug mafias as proposed [...]
The Gringo and the Harvest
