Items tagged with latin american debate
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| What does departure of top US anti-drug diplomat mean for LatAm policy? [30.08.2017] | The planned resignation of the US State Department's top anti-drug official raises further questions about the future of US counternarcotics efforts ... |
| Uruguay’s marijuana law turns pharmacists into dealers [19.07.2017] | The rules are a bit of a buzzkill. Drug users must register with the government. Machines will scan buyers’ fingerprints at every purchase, and there ... |
| People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana [27.02.2017] | Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to a study published the Inte ... |
| Election may be a turning point for legal marijuana [23.10.2016] | To the red-and-blue map of American politics, it may be time to add green. The movement to legalize marijuana, the country’s most popular illicit dru ... |
| Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean [15.09.2016] | Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 1 ... |
| UNGASS 2016: A Broken or B-r-o-a-d Consensus? [05.07.2016] | A special session of the General Assembly took place in April revealing a growing divergence in the global drug policy landscape. Difficult negotiati ... |
| The movement to legalize pot gains speed in the Americas [21.04.2016] | In the shift toward legalization of marijuana, the Americas have emerged as a leader. This is a remarkable shift for a region that includes some of t ... |
| ‘Addicted to punishment' [13.04.2016] | Latin American leaders may be patting themselves on the back for engineering next week’s Special Session of the UN General Assembly in New York to re ... |
| Will UNGASS 2016 be the beginning of the end for the ‘war on drugs’? [16.03.2016] | In April 2016, the UN will dedicate, for the third time in its history, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to discuss global ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
| Chile considers cannabis decriminalization [17.08.2015] | With its proposed changes to Ley 20.000 (Law 20,000), Chile joins a growing list of Latin American countries decriminalizing marijuana. The initiativ ... |
| Latin America rethinks drug policies [26.05.2015] | During the 1980s and 1990s, as the United States battled the scourge of cocaine throughout the hemisphere, Washington did most of the talking. Latin ... |
| More South America teens using cocaine: Report [04.05.2015] | The Organization of American States' (OAS) latest drug consumption report highlights shifting trends in drug use among youths in the Western Hemisphe ... |
| Drug policy innovations in the Americas [11.03.2015] | In recent years, the Americas have been at the forefront of calls for a meaningful review of traditional approaches to drug control based on tough la ... |
| The United States rethinks draconian drug sentencing policies [27.01.2015] | Across the Americas, an unprecedented debate on drug policy reform is underway. While a regional consensus on what form those reforms should take rem ... |
| 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 ... |
| Prohibition is not working: the case for sanity in the war on drugs [29.10.2014] | The House of Commons will today debate whether to rethink the war on drugs. While it is only a backbench business debate, and is therefore not bindin ... |
| At its XLVI Special Session in Guatemala, the OAS General Assembly adopts resolution on the drugs problem in the Americas [23.09.2014] | The Organization of American States (OAS) adopted by acclamation a resolution that underscores "the importance of hemispheric and international coope ... |
| OAS chief urges new approach to failed ‘war on drugs’ [12.09.2014] | With the Organization of American States due to hold a special general assembly in Guatemala on illicit drugs in less than a week, OAS Secretary Gene ... |
| Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor [04.09.2014] | Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments ... |
| V Latin American and I Central American Conference on Drug Policy [25.08.2014] | In this edition, the 5th Latin American and 1st Central American Conference on Drug Policy aims to be a platform for discussion and elaboration of so ... |
| Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
| Mexican president hints may be open to change in marijuana laws [07.06.2014] | Mexico and the United States cannot pursue diverging policies on marijuana legalization, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was quoted as saying, h ... |
| Promoting Human Rights - Based Drug Policies in Latin America [27.12.2013] | "Latin American countries can take the lead in ensuring that national, regional, and ultimately international drug control policies are carried out i ... |
| Uruguay's neighbors now considering legalization of pot [24.12.2013] | Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America. Followin ... |
| Uruguay legalizes pot, recasting drug war [10.12.2013] | The Uruguay Senate approved a bill to legalize marijuana and put its trade into state hands, in what many experts said marks a new model for the war ... |
| Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs [30.11.2013] | Major divisions over the global "war on drugs" have been revealed in a leaked draft of a UN document setting out the organisation's long-term strateg ... |
| Open letter to Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas [25.11.2013] | We, the undersigned human rights organizations, address you on this Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security (MISPA) to follow up ... |
| US Attorney General Holder rejects mass incarceration, 'one-size-fits all' security policies [21.11.2013] | Speaking at a meeting of the hemisphere's security ministers in Medellin, United States Attorney General Eric Holder touted the Obama administration' ... |
| Uruguay's likely cannabis law could set tone for war on drugs in Latin America [18.11.2013] | The marijuana regulation bill, which has been passed by the lower house of the Uruguayan parliament, will allow registered users to buy up to 40g a m ... |
| Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' [05.11.2013] | Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from preventable drug-related disease and violence. Millions of users are arrested an ... |
| Weed: Decriminalise to stabilise [26.10.2013] | Jamaica's current volatile security environment and its economic malaise are reasons enough to seriously consider joining their Latin American counte ... |
| Latin America builds momentum against US-backed drug war [09.10.2013] | One after another, Latin American leaders rose to the podium at the last UN General Assembly to take a stand against the United States' signature sec ... |
| Latin American leaders bring drug policy debate to the United Nations [29.09.2013] | At the annual UN General Assembly meeting held in New York, presidents from around the world have the chance to state their views on the key internat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colombian president tells U.N. the drug war has not been won [24.09.2013] | The "war on drugs" has not been won, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations, exhorting the world body to add teeth to the Spe ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas (Version 2) [15.08.2013] | At the root of the drug policy debate in Latin America is growing recognition that present policies have failed to achieve the desired objectives, th ... |
| Cardoso Endorses Uruguay’s ‘Regulacion Responsable’ [19.07.2013] | In an op-ed first published in Mexico’s El Universal and Brazil’s O Globo on Tuesday, Cardoso praised the proposal’s potential to take away profits w ... |
| Guatemala Minister of Foreign Affairs presents results of OAS General Assembly meeting, focused on drug policy, to full house at UN Headquarters in New York [11.07.2013] | It was nearly standing room only Monday at UN Headquarters in New York, for a presentation of the Organization of American States’ reports on “The Dr ... |
| Launching the debate [30.06.2013] | In April 2012, most of the hemisphere’s presidents gathered at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia and held a closed-door meeting where ... |
| Latin American leaders chart course for drug policy debate [20.06.2013] | This year’s annual General Assembly meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), which brings together the hemisphere’s foreign ministers, m ... |
| Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot [13.06.2013] | At last week's annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States' drug policie ... |
| What is Different in the Drug Policy Debate in the Americas? [10.06.2013] | After four decades of the monologue of the “war on drugs”, the Americas open the door for the debate, breaking the taboo to discuss new approaches to ... |
| Declaration of Antigua Guatemala “For a comprehensive policy against the world drug problem in the Americas" [10.06.2013] | The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegation of the Member States of the Organizations of American States (OAS) gathered in Antigua, Guat ... |
| OAS chief calls for “long-awaited” debate on drug policy [25.05.2013] | Following the release of a major draft report on drug policy in the Americas, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS) call ... |
| 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 ... |
| OAS recommends decriminalization of drugs [19.05.2013] | The decriminalization of drug use and the regulation of marijuana consumption are the principle recommendations made in The Drug Problem in the Ameri ... |
| 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 ... |
| OAS study eyes marijuana decriminalization [17.05.2013] | An Organization of American States study in response to calls by some Latin American leaders for rethinking the war on drugs advocates serious discus ... |
| Study of the Organisation of American States (OAS) [17.05.2013] | On May 17, 2013, the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Sa ... |
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