Posts Tagged ‘Latin America’
And The Beat Goes On
“A Big Arrest Could Revive the Medellin Drug War” - Time Magazine reports on a typical example of how removing one Latin-American drug-lord, only results in an increase in violence as others fight to fill his place, without having any impact on the prevalence of drugs in either producer...
November 9th, 2009 | Drug Policy | Read More
The White Stuff
Celebrated documentary-maker Angus Macqueen spent 18 months on the cocaine trail across Latin America from the dirt-poor valleys of Peru to the shanty towns of Rio. Here he recalls the journey that revolutionised his views and explains why he believes ‘the dandruff of the Andes’ should be...
October 21st, 2009 | Drug Policy | Read More
Ex-Presidents Call for Change
This is a statement 3 Ex-Presidents from Latin America have made in the Wall Street Journal. They themselves led the fight against drugs during their terms of office, but are now calling for a paradigm shift in international drug policy, having seen the numbers of innocent casualties in this war on drugs....
October 11th, 2009 | Drug Policy | Read More
Can America admit defeat in its war on drugs?
This article was written by Ed Vulliami for the Observer and is another example of the growing willingness in mainstream media to question the efficacy of our current system of drug prohibition. Vulliami describes the increasing international pressure on America, particularly in Latin America, to alter...
September 29th, 2009 | Drug Policy | Read More







