Items tagged with violence
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| The Road to UNGASS 2016 [14.04.2015] | On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug ... |
| Urban drug markets and zones of impunity in Colombia [25.02.2015] | The retail drug trade has been identified by the authorities as a strategic priority, under the hypothesis that it is one of the main triggers of vio ... |
| Why is Rio de Janeiro so dangerous? [18.02.2015] | While Brazil has the dubious honor of having the highest homicide rate in the world – with 56,337 killings reported in 2013 – Rio has the most number ... |
| Gangs at war over Swiss cannabis plantations [17.02.2015] | The public prosecutor of St Gallen ordered the detention in custody of two suspects following a shooting at an industrial building in Altstätten whic ... |
| Mexico: Challenging drug prohibition from below [13.01.2015] | The horrific forced disappearance of 43 students in Iguala reveals how organised crime and corruption thrive in conditions of institutional or democr ... |
| Fixing a broken system [28.12.2014] | Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling th ... |
| Making a mountain out of a molehill: myths on youth and crime in Saint Lucia [15.12.2014] | Caribbean states face challenges of youth involvement in crime, violence, gangs and other anti-social activities. It is not uncommonly heard the “dru ... |
| Drugs, armed conflict and peace [14.07.2014] | This policy briefing analyses the results of the partial agreement on drugs reached at the talks being held in Havana between the Revolutionary Armed ... |
| Legalizing medical marijuana may actually reduce crime, study says [26.03.2014] | Legalizing medical marijuana causes no increase in crime, according to a new study. In fact, legalized medical pot may reduce some violent crime, inc ... |
| Why the mayor of Copenhagen wants to get into the marijuana business [02.03.2014] | The city of Copenhagen should be growing its own weed, said its mayor. According to Social Democrat Frank Jensen, the Danish capital can only get a g ... |
| Eyes Wide Shut: Corruption and Drug-Related Violence in Rosario [30.12.2013] | In Rosario, Argentina, the presence of criminal organisations involved in drug trafficking was a low priority for the government until New Year’s day ... |
| Do falling murders in Rio mean success for Brazil's UPPs? [18.12.2013] | Homicides have fallen 65 percent in the Rio de Janeiro favelas where Police Pacification Units have been installed during four years of the flagship ... |
| Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
| Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
| Let the gangs wither and the state turn a profit [04.11.2013] | As a law enforcement professional, I was waiting impatiently for the government’s recommendations for fighting gang crime. I’ve been especially impat ... |
| Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
| Breaking the taboo about drugs [17.05.2013] | After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day. In Latin America, the debate is ... |
| In Latin America, U.S. focus shifts from drug war to economy [04.05.2013] | Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles ag ... |
| Legalize marijuana and other ways U.S.-Mexico can win drug war [03.05.2013] | There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Obama’s visit to Mexico. That’s because Mexican President Peña Nieto is ... |
| 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 ... |
| 'They stole our dreams': blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico's drug wars [02.04.2013] | For three years it has chronicled Mexico's drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of readers, ... |
| No one is safe from Argentina's drug war [25.02.2013] | For years the country was largely untouched by the brutal cartels that control the drug trade in Latin America. But an eight-year-old boy is proof th ... |
| Mexico goes after the narcos [24.02.2013] | Gang-outreach schemes, community centers, employment projects and construction programs aimed at transforming chaotic urban jungles. “There is a comp ... |
| Report: Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis' [19.02.2013] | Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in the report Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Crisis Ignored, that c ... |
| Mexico unveils new strategy in war on drugs and for preventing crime [12.02.2013] | Mexico's new administration has offered the first details of its new strategy in the country's war on drugs, saying the government will spend $9.2bn ... |
| The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context [31.01.2013] | The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of curre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mexico changes stance in drug war – but little difference seen from Calderón [17.12.2012] | Mexico's new president has outlined a security strategy aimed at reducing drug war-related violence that, rhetorically at least, contrasts starkly wi ... |
| Turning over a new leaf [30.11.2012] | Faced with this soiled wedge between state legislation and federal law within the United States, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto and his ... |
| The Northern Triangle’s drugs-violence nexus [28.11.2012] | Mexico has occupied the limelight when it comes to media attention focusing on drug-related violence in Latin America. However, it is actually Centra ... |
| Mexico's drug war bright spot hides dark underbelly [27.11.2012] | For four years, Ciudad Juárez on the border with Texas was convulsed by daily slaughter, becoming the murder capital of the world and a shocking illu ... |
| "Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23.11.2012] | Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervi ... |
| Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models [17.11.2012] | Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costl ... |
| Narco-states grope for new strategy [04.11.2012] | Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala face the need to modify their approach to the fight against drug trafficking and are urging the world to do the same. ... |
| Legalising marijuana: The view from Mexico [02.11.2012] | Voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will vote on whether to legalise marijuana. Polls suggest that the initiatives have a decent chance of pass ... |
| Hit Mexico’s Cartels With Legalization [01.11.2012] | We have to face up to the hard reasons why thousands of young men (and some women) with full mental faculties have become serial killers. These reaso ... |
| Mexico study: US legalization cuts cartel profits [30.10.2012] | A study released by a respected Mexican think tank asserts that proposals to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado, Oregon and Washi ... |
| Op-ed: Approve I-502, legalize marijuana and cripple organized crime in B.C. [29.10.2012] | Passing Initiative 502 is one of the best ways to reduce international gang violence? Like the violent cartels gripping Mexico, British Columbia is a ... |
| Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24.10.2012] | Brazil has been struggling with drug violence for years. The problem got so bad that the country passed a law in 2006 to distinguish between dealers ... |
| 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 ... |
| Q&A: “Pacification of favelas not a real public policy yet” [17.09.2012] | The "pacification" of the favelas in this Brazilian city, aimed at driving out armed groups and fighting drug trafficking, has not yet become a fully ... |
| Cannabis trade 'explosion' causing surge in gun violence, police warn [10.09.2012] | Penalties for growing and selling cannabis must be toughened because a surge in the trade is driving up shootings and gang-related violence, a senior ... |
| Colombian prosecutor calls for drug legalisation referendum [20.08.2012] | Colombia's chief public prosecutor has called for a referendum on whether to legalise drug consumption, in response to plans to set up a network of p ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mérida: continued support for a failed strategy [21.05.2012] | Some five years ago, after Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón declared a War on Drugs followed by a firm military crackdown on drug trafficking organ ... |
| 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 ... |
| What comes after the war on drugs [19.04.2012] | At the Summit of the Americas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed doubt about the war on drugs. “I think what everybody believes and agrees with ... |
| Time for open, informed debate on drug policy [18.04.2012] | Latin American leaders have said recently that the West’s "war on drugs" has failed, and a new book from the International Institute for Strategic St ... |
| 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 ... |
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