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Drug-law reform: Inching forward [25-05-13] Seven of the world’s eight most violent countries lie on the bloody trafficking route from the cocaine fields of the Andes to the nostrils of North Am...
Colombian President Santos, OAS Chief Insulza to present new study on drug policy alternatives [13-05-13] This Friday, May 17, in Bogotá, Colombia, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will present Colombian President...
Guatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" [25-02-13] The Secretary General of the OAS highlighted the assignment received during the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012, which urged the OAS to analyze t...
Guatemalan leader sees paradigm shift on drug policy [13-02-13] Guatemalan President Otto Perez said he is feeling less alone in his drive to re-think the fight against drug-trafficking than a year ago, when he sho...
Davos 2013: Soros calls for new strategy on drugs [23-01-13] George Soros has called for an end to the West's "war on drugs". Soros has thrown his weight behind a push by Guatemalan President Pere...
Guatemala's president: 'My country bears the scars from the war on drugs' [19-01-13] This is at the heart of the awakening in Latin America, a feeling that drugs prohibition has allowed rich and powerful cartels to rise to such promi...
Leaders in Latin America call for review of drug policy after 2 U.S. states vote to legalize marijuana [12-11-12] A group of Latin American leaders declared that votes by two U.S. states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash drug s...
Drug legalization in Latin America: Could it be the answer? [16-10-12] Washington’s hard-lined anti-legalization position is unlikely to waiver regardless of who wins the upcoming U.S. presidential election. A more import...
How Latin America may lead the world in decriminalizing drug use [09-10-12] While Latin America insists that policy change must be the focus of a coordinated global effort, the region seems bent on advancing reform, with or wi...
Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy [04-10-12] Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate o...
U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. [26-09-12] The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of drug laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new ...
AP Interview: Guatemala prez says legalize drugs [25-09-12] Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is advocating the international legalization of drugs even as he is moving to fight narcotics cartels with the...
Legal Marijuana Debated as Belize Joins Regional Push on Drugs [17-07-12] Marijuana possession may be decriminalized in Belize as the Central American nation joins a list of countries from Mexico to Uruguay whose leaders hav...
Mexico's President-Elect: Legalization Should Be Part of Drug Strategy Debate [03-07-12] The president-elect of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, said Mexico should have a debate about legalizing and regulating, an approach advocated by other La...
A breakthrough in the making? [25-06-12] Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac...
International 'anti-drug' summit in Peru attempts to maintain drug war status quo: Will it succeed? [23-06-12] The global debate on drug policy is getting more interesting, due in no small part to initiatives from Latin America. The Uruguayan government’s June ...
Should Latin America End the War on Drugs? [31-05-12] After decades of war with drug cartels, Latin America faces sickening levels of violence and corruption that have spread throughout the region. At a s...
Drugs: The Rebellion in Cartagena [23-05-12] The startling, unprogrammed, and rebellious discussion about drugs that took place among hemispheric leaders in April at a summit in Cartagena, Colomb...
Drug war will change course in 2013 [26-04-12] When the recent Summit of the Americas in Colombia decided to commission a study on whether to decriminalize drugs, many thought that would be the en...
The drug war spreads instability [26-04-12] The war on drugs doesn’t just cause human misery. It contributes to the political instability of many parts of the world. Countries such as Mali, Guin...
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