war on drugs
Some brief notes about coca in Bolivia
March 11, 2025A North American traveling to some parts of South America—Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, for example—is intrigued by these lands as the locus for a major source of drugs in the United States, cocaine in particular.
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Una ‘guerra contra las drogas’ en Ecuador es la fachada de la intervención de EE.UU.
February 8, 2024Acompañada de otros funcionarios estadounidenses, Laura Richardson, comandante del Comando Sur del Ejército de Estados Unidos, estuvo en Ecuador del 22 al 25 de enero. Estaba conferenciando con el presidente Daniel Noboa —recientemente electo y muy...
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A ‘war on drugs’ in Ecuador is the cover for U.S. intervention
February 8, 2024The U.S. is the world’s top consumer of illicit drugs, but rather than focus on treatment programs at home, it chooses to fight a “war on drugs” abroad.
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Gobierno de Colombia: ‘la guerra contra las drogas fracasó’, opta por la paz en las zonas rurales
October 15, 2023El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro insiste en que “la guerra contra las drogas ha fracasado” y está impulsando un enfoque que él llama “despenalización gradual”. Su gobierno está dando prioridad a la iniciativa, que es parte...
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Colombia’s government says ‘war on drugs failed,’ opts for peace in rural areas
October 12, 2023If successful, the new approach could undercut U.S. attempts to use drugs as an excuse for military intervention.
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