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In Latin America, U.S. focus shifts from drug war to economy [04-05-13] Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles aga...
Legalize marijuana and other ways U.S.-Mexico can win drug war [03-05-13] 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 ...
'They stole our dreams': blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico's drug wars [03-04-13] For three years it has chronicled Mexico's drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of reade...
No one is safe from Argentina's drug war [26-02-13] 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 tho...
Mexico goes after the narcos [25-02-13] Gang-outreach schemes, community centers, employment projects and construction programs aimed at transforming chaotic urban jungles. “There is a compl...
Report: Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis' [20-02-13] Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in the report Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Cri...
Mexico unveils new strategy in war on drugs and for preventing crime [13-02-13] Mexico's new administration has offered the first details of its new strategy in the country's war on drugs, saying the government will spen...
The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context [01-02-13] 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 curren...
Guatemala's president: 'My country bears the scars from the war on drugs' [19-01-13] 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 promi...
Mexico changes stance in drug war – but little difference seen from Calderón [18-12-12] Mexico's new president has outlined a security strategy aimed at reducing drug war-related violence that, rhetorically at least, contrasts starkl...
Turning over a new leaf [30-11-12] Faced with this soiled wedge between state legislation and federal law within the United States, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto an...
The Northern Triangle’s drugs-violence nexus [28-11-12] Mexico has occupied the limelight when it comes to media attention focusing on drug-related violence in Latin America. However, it is actually Central...
Mexico's drug war bright spot hides dark underbelly [28-11-12] 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 illus...
"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23-11-12] Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervie...
Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models [17-11-12] Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costly...
Narco-states grope for new strategy [05-11-12] 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. B...
Legalising marijuana: The view from Mexico [02-11-12] Voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will vote on whether to legalise marijuana. Polls suggest that the initiatives have a decent chance of passi...
Hit Mexico’s Cartels With Legalization [02-11-12] 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 reas...
Mexico study: US legalization cuts cartel profits [31-10-12] A study released by a respected Mexican think tank asserts that proposals to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado, Oregon and Wash...
Op-ed: Approve I-502, legalize marijuana and cripple organized crime in B.C. [30-10-12] Passing Initiative 502 is one of the best ways to reduce international gang violence? Like the violent cartels gripping Mexico, British Columbia is af...
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