war on drugs

Venezuela border conflict mixes drug trafficking and regime-change ambitions

April 16, 2021 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Colombian and the U.S. hope to utilize any drug-linked humanitarian crisis as an opening to further destabilize Venezuela’s government.

U.S. must return political prisoner Simón Trinidad to Colombia

June 24, 2020 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Simón Trinidad, a leader of the FARC, faced unfounded criminal charges in a U.S. court. He’s being held under the cruelest of conditions and will die in prison unless he is released.

Netflix’s ‘How to Fix a Drug Scandal’ will anger you, and rightly so

April 10, 2020 By Chauncey K. Robinson

It is a documentary that will have audiences discussing the intersectionality of race, class, and gender when it comes to the criminal justice system.