Items tagged with violence
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| 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 ... |
| Considering New Strategies for Confronting Organized Crime in Mexico [29.03.2012] | Mexico has experienced an unprecedented rise in crime and violence over the past five years with over 47,000 people killed in crime related violence ... |
| 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 ... |
| '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, ... |
| Policing drug sales: Cleaning up the ’hood [02.03.2012] | An approach known as drug-market intervention (DMI) was first used in High Point, North Carolina, in 2004 and since then has been tried in more than ... |
| Ex-resident and police say Christiania’s future threatened by violence [07.02.2012] | In response to an opinion piece in Politiken newspaper, in which a former Christiania resident encourages residents of the commune to stand up to the ... |
| Latin American leaders fault U.S. drug users [19.12.2011] | Latin American leaders have joined together to condemn the U.S. government for soaring drug violence in their countries, blaming the United States fo ... |
| ‘Pacification’ of favelas not just a media circus [16.11.2011] | The "take-over" of Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, by heavily armed police and military units was seen by some as a media spectacle ... |
| Slum raids in Rio de Janeiro impress [14.11.2011] | The police blitzes in this Olympic city’s biggest slums are meant to show the world that Rio is winning the fight against violent drug gangs that hav ... |
| How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime [11.11.2011] | This contradicts one of the central tenets of the War on Drugs, which is that the psychopharmacological effects of drug use lead to criminal behavior ... |
| Legalizing pot would cut gang violence: experts [28.10.2011] | A new coalition of high-profile health, academic and justice experts is mounting a campaign to legalize and regulate marijuana in British Columbia, a ... |
| Breaking the Silence [01.10.2011] | This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence ... |
| Mexico president hints legalizing drugs may be needed [20.09.2011] | Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday turned up pressure on the United States to curb demand for illicit drugs, hinting that legalization of na ... |
| Tackling Violence in Mexico [10.09.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) translated the article La raíz de la violencia by Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez that was originally publis ... |
| Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? [30.08.2011] | The central statistic of Mexico's violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to alarm u ... |
| Former Mexican president urges legalizing drugs [27.07.2011] | Part of the solution to end drug violence in Mexico should include legalizing drugs like marijuana for personal use, according to former President Vi ... |
| The Drug War Is the Inevitable Result of Capitalism Gone Mad; Ciudad Juarez Is All of Our Futures [21.06.2011] | War, as I came to report it, was something fought between people with causes, however crazy or honourable: like between the American and British occup ... |
| From war on drugs to community policing in Rio [01.06.2011] | Four decades after Washington declared its "war on drugs" and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the Brazilian ... |
| Expert Workshop on Supply-Oriented Harm Reduction [10.05.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) invited a group of 20 experts for a round-table discussion at the ... |
| Drug laws 'may make matters worse' [31.03.2011] | Police efforts to fight drug gangs tend to lead to more violence and an increase in murders, according to a new international study. The authors, wri ... |
| Conquering Complexo do Alemão [02.12.2010] | It was a moment that residents of Rio de Janeiro thought would never come. For decades many of the city’s favelas have been ruled by drug traffickers ... |
| Police occupation hurts improved relations with favelas [30.11.2010] | Reports of human rights abuses committed during the police and military occupation of several favelas in this Brazilian city are jeopardising local r ... |
| Militias in Rio de Janeiro [05.11.2010] | Last month the film Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2) was released in Brazil. It is a sequel to the very successful 2007 film Elite Squad, a semi-fict ... |
| Todos Somos Juarez? [19.10.2010] | On October 12, 2010, Mexican president Felipe Calderon traveled to Ciudad Juarez to attend a meeting evaluating the “Todos Somos Juarez” program whic ... |
| Cannabis farmers take up arms to defend crops in booming trade [16.08.2010] | Illicit cannabis factory farmers are arming themselves with sawn-off shotguns, CS sprays and machetes and even setting booby traps to protect their c ... |
| Mexico looks to legalisation as drug war murders hit 28,000 [04.08.2010] | Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has joined calls for a debate on the legalisation of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year ... |
| Saturation policing criminalises poverty, activists say [02.06.2010] | The policy of a saturation police presence in the favelas or shantytowns that are home to around 20 percent of the population of Rio de Jnaeiro is mer ... |
| Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence [01.04.2010] | This report consists of a scientific review that illustrates the relationship between drug law enforcement and drug-related violence. Violence is amo ... |
| Mixed reviews for ‘community policing’ in slums [21.05.2009] | The police, who used to shoot first and ask questions later in Santa Marta, a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, are now getting on well with the local commu ... |
| Towards a harm reduction approach to enforcement [01.01.2009] | Harm-reduction as a policy goal implies targeting directly drug-related harms rather than drug use itself. So far it has been largely a public health ... |
| The Wire's War on the Drug War [05.03.2008] | If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Sav ... |
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