Items tagged with guatemala initiative
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| Guatemala president to UN: Reform global drug policy [25.09.2013] | Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina rose to power in 2011 on the promise of crushing organized crime. The former army general pledged high-securit ... |
| Drug-law reform: Inching forward [24.05.2013] | 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 A ... |
| Colombian President Santos, OAS Chief Insulza to present new study on drug policy alternatives [12.05.2013] | This Friday, May 17, in Bogotá, Colombia, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will present Colombian Presiden ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
| Guatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" [24.02.2013] | 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 ... |
| Guatemalan leader sees paradigm shift on drug policy [12.02.2013] | 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 sh ... |
| Davos 2013: Soros calls for new strategy on drugs [23.01.2013] | 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 Perez Molina, who ... |
| Guatemala's president: 'My country bears the scars from the war on drugs' [18.01.2013] | 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 promin ... |
| Leaders in Latin America call for review of drug policy after 2 U.S. states vote to legalize marijuana [12.11.2012] | 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 ... |
| Drug legalization in Latin America: Could it be the answer? [15.10.2012] | Washington’s hard-lined anti-legalization position is unlikely to waiver regardless of who wins the upcoming U.S. presidential election. A more impor ... |
| How Latin America may lead the world in decriminalizing drug use [09.10.2012] | 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 w ... |
| Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy [03.10.2012] | Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate ... |
| U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. [26.09.2012] | 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 [24.09.2012] | 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 [16.07.2012] | Marijuana possession may be decriminalized in Belize as the Central American nation joins a list of countries from Mexico to Uruguay whose leaders ha ... |
| Mexico's President-Elect: Legalization Should Be Part of Drug Strategy Debate [02.07.2012] | The president-elect of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, said Mexico should have a debate about legalizing and regulating, an approach advocated by other L ... |
| A breakthrough in the making? [25.06.2012] | 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? [22.06.2012] | 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? [30.05.2012] | After decades of war with drug cartels, Latin America faces sickening levels of violence and corruption that have spread throughout the region. At a ... |
| Drugs: The Rebellion in Cartagena [23.05.2012] | The startling, unprogrammed, and rebellious discussion about drugs that took place among hemispheric leaders in April at a summit in Cartagena, Colom ... |
| Drug war will change course in 2013 [26.04.2012] | 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 [25.04.2012] | 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, Gui ... |
| It's time to transform the global war on drugs [24.04.2012] | At the recent Summit of the Americas, Latin America's leaders pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to study alternat ... |
| War on drugs: There has to be a better way [24.04.2012] | The most important story of the Summit of the Americas was the Latin American demand to open the debate on an alternative to the ‘war on drugs’. The ... |
| Drug-law reform genie freed from bottle at Summit of the Americas [19.04.2012] | Present international drug control policies are deeply-rooted and change will no doubt come slowly. However, as a result of the Cartagena summit, for ... |
| Obama and the failed war on drugs [15.04.2012] | Long before he was in a position to change his country's policies, Barack Obama had firm views on a complex problem: "The war on drugs has been an ut ... |
| Summit of the Americas agree war on drugs a failure [15.04.2012] | This weekend’s Summit of the Americas did not produce a joint communiqué charting the future of the hemisphere, but the 31 leaders agreed on one thin ... |
| Colombia calls for global drugs taskforce [14.04.2012] | The government of Colombia pushed for the most far-reaching change to policy on drugs since US president Richard Nixon declared war on narcotics four ... |
| At summit, drug talk likely to be hot but hidden [13.04.2012] | As the hemisphere’s leaders gather in Colombia this week for the VI Summit of the Americas, their on-camera discussions will be dominated by perennia ... |
| A Better Strategy to Combat Organized Crime in Mexico and Central America [12.04.2012] | The Cartagena Summit of the Americas where heads of state will meet in middle April comes at a time of acute crime crisis in Latin America and growin ... |
| Latin America debates alternatives to current drug policy [12.04.2012] | The debate on alternatives to the war on drugs has seen a tremendous boost in recent months. Disappointed about the meager results of prohibition-led ... |
| Latin American countries pursue alternatives to U.S. drug war [09.04.2012] | When President Obama arrives in Colombia for a hemispheric summit this weekend, he will hear Latin American leaders say that the U.S.-orchestrated wa ... |
| 'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders [08.04.2012] | A historic meeting of Latin America's leaders, to be attended by Barack Obama, will hear serving heads of state admit that the war on drugs has been ... |
| Time for Obama to join the debate over the failed war on drugs [08.04.2012] | All wars end. Eventually. Even the war on drugs – resilient for so long – is starting to show signs of exhaustion. It is 42 years since President Nix ... |
| We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare [08.04.2012] | Guatemala will not fail to honour any of its international commitments to fighting drug trafficking. But nor are we willing to continue as dumb witne ... |
| Chronicle of a debate foretold [04.04.2012] | Political divides in the Central American region around drug control surfaced sharply at the recent regional summit on “New Routes against Drugs Traf ... |
| U.S. Facing Bold New Calls for “Drug War” Alternatives [02.04.2012] | At a poorly attended summit of Central American leaders, President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala reiterated calls for the decriminalization of recre ... |
| Salvadoran leader: I wasn't involved in gang truce [27.03.2012] | President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador denied that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce credited ... |
| Central American drug summit inconclusive [24.03.2012] | A conclave of Central American presidents meeting in Guatemala to discuss a major overhaul of their drug laws — including legalization or decriminali ... |
| Guatemala sets out plans to shake up anti-drug policy [23.03.2012] | Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Saturday set out a raft of proposals to tackle rampant drug-fuelled violence in Central America, including decrimi ... |
| Guatemalan president leads drug legalization debate [22.03.2012] | On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist. The retired general said he would send troops into the streets ... |
| 'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed' [09.03.2012] | Latin American leaders are increasingly speaking out against prohibition. And public opinion in America, especially when it comes to legalizing pot, ... |
| Just say no [05.03.2012] | Given the recent calls by several Latin American presidents for a debate on legalising drugs, would the United States show any flexibility in its sta ... |
| VP Biden goes to Latin American amid drug debate [02.03.2012] | Vice President Joe Biden heads to Latin America Sunday amid unprecedented pressure from political and business leaders to talk about something U.S. o ... |
| Interview: Guatemala president says drug war can’t be fought with arms [15.02.2012] | Guatemala’s first president with a military background in 25 years said Tuesday the drug war can’t be won with arms alone, and pledged that his admin ... |
| Guatemala president weighs drug legalization, blames US for not reducing consumption [14.02.2012] | U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President O ... |
| Legalizing drugs gains ground in Latin America [13.02.2012] | Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has repeated his suggestion that Guatemala and the other nations of Central America should consider decriminal ... |
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