Items tagged with colombia and eradication
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Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report [19.02.2023] | Cattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the last four decades, a new study has found. Successive recent ... |
Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
U.S. 'war on drugs' in Latin America needs overhaul amid COVID-19 challenges, report says [01.12.2020] | The United States’ anti-drug policy in Latin America needs to change if Washington is to effectively combat a problem worsened by the COVID-19 pandem ... |
‘I will be left with nothing’: Why Colombians are watching the U.S. election closely [02.11.2020] | Coca fumigations started in Colombia in the early 1990s and intensified during “Plan Colombia,” a $10 billion U.S. campaign that ran from 2000 to 201 ... |
Colombia lawmakers seek to take control of cocaine market. It’s a long shot [21.09.2020] | Legislators weary of Colombia’s whack-a-mole anti-narcotics efforts propose to stop the often violent trafficking of cocaine that has plagued the cou ... |
Glyphosate and cocaine: Colombia's next drug war? [09.03.2020] | Pedro Arenas is afraid that they'll take flight again. "I expect it could be within the next months," he says. Since the end of last year, nine AT-80 ... |
The ‘deja vú’ of aerial crop spraying in Colombia [29.02.2020] | At the end of 2019 the government of Iván Duque presented a draft decree to resume the spraying of drug crops used for illicit purposes. It argued th ... |
Colombia will tackle cocaine with a cancer-causing chemical. Only problem is, it won't work [21.01.2020] | The Colombian government has published a proposed law that will allow it to resume a controversial program of aerial fumigation of coca crops using g ... |
Coca, the illicit plant that funded Colombia’s civil war, is flourishing again [10.07.2019] | It was eight years ago the last time planes came to spray poison on Noralba Quintero’s coca crop in the jungled foothills here by the mighty Magdalen ... |
A death foretold: Colombia’s crop substitution program [01.04.2019] | The government’s failure to comply with the coca crops substitution program in Colombia has left the future of almost 100,000 families in limbo and s ... |
Glyphosate alone won’t fix Colombia’s complex coca woes [14.03.2019] | Colombia’s Constitutional Court is debating lifting a judicial ban on the spraying of glyphosate during the aerial fumigation of illicit coca crops, ... |
Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
Colombia continues to break records for cocaine production, report says [19.09.2018] | Colombia is desperate to shed its reputation as a nation dogged by the drug trade, but new figures from the United Nations show that it continues to ... |
Murder in Colombia’s peace laboratory [19.07.2018] | Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with ... |
Colombia coca production hits new record high, US figures say [26.06.2018] | US estimates of coca production in Colombia show the Andean nation has set a new record for the amount of the drug-producing crop under cultivation, ... |
Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other [20.02.2018] | The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-subst ... |
Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure [27.10.2017] | According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia’s overall coca crop grew by a staggering 52 percent last year, to 345,000 acres, an area te ... |
Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge [14.09.2017] | U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reve ... |
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 ... |
Coca and the Colombian Peace Accords [11.08.2017] | Getting to the Briceño region in the heart of Antioquia requires an excellent vehicle, and a lot of time and luck. The week before our journey there ... |
After decades of war, Colombian farmers face a new test: Peace [18.07.2017] | Every three months or so, Javier Tupaz, a father of six, heads downhill from his clapboard home to work in his cocaine laboratory. Under a black tent ... |
Is Colombia sacrificing coca farmers' trust for US Aid dollars? [17.05.2017] | Colombia's defense minister divulged new coca eradication figures ahead of a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his US counte ... |
Were peasant farmers poisoned by the U.S. war on drugs? [19.04.2017] | After a 15-year legal battle, a U.S. jury will begin deliberations over whether a U.S. security contractor must pay damages to 2,000 Ecuadoran farmer ... |
Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords [13.03.2017] | Colombia is in the midst of a coca boom, perhaps its largest ever. The coca boom’s causes are complex, and Colombia’s government is hoping that the U ... |
Joint statement [13.03.2017] | Exactly one year ago, in the 59th session of the CND, the Colombian government urged the international community to openly debate the results obtaine ... |
How Santos’ new peace deal aggravated Colombia’s drug war [25.01.2017] | The chapter devoted to “solving the drug problem” in the first version of President Santos’ peace agreement was far from perfect. But it was the firs ... |
Colombian leader: "It makes no sense" to jail peasant over marijuana [10.12.2016] | Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos used the Nobel podium in Norway to reiterate his call to "rethink" the war on drugs. "It makes no sense to imp ... |
Colombia’s "lost city of marijuana" [07.04.2016] | The jungle around Toribío in southwestern Colombia is filled with vast pot plantations that stretch as far as the eye can see. At night, the greenhou ... |
Colombia is again the world’s top coca producer [09.11.2015] | Illegal coca cultivation is surging in Colombia, erasing one of the showcase achievements of U.S. counternarcotics policy. Just two years after it ce ... |
Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying [01.07.2015] | A new UN study showing a steep rise in the cultivation of the leaf used to make cocaine offers fresh support to Colombia’s recent decision to end the ... |
Defying U.S., Colombia halts aerial spraying of crops used to make cocaine [13.05.2015] | The government of Colombia rejected a major tool in the American-backed antidrug campaign — ordering a halt to the aerial spraying of the country’s v ... |
Colombia to ban coca spraying herbicide glyphosate [09.05.2015] | Colombia has announced it will stop using a controversial herbicide to destroy illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The decis ... |
Last flight looms for US-funded air war on drugs as Colombia counts health cost [05.05.2015] | For more than two decades crop dusters have buzzed the skies of Colombia showering bright green fields of coca with chemical defoliant as part of a U ... |
The problem of glyphosate spraying [13.04.2015] | An article published recently in El Espectador commented on the two issues that underpin the Colombian discourse on the subject of drugs. To be preci ... |
Analysis: Colombia’s fight against the coca trade [05.09.2013] | EL TARRA, 28 August 2013 (IRIN) - The Colombian government believes people should just say no to growing coca: those that do not, risk aerial sprayin ... |
FARC proposes drug legalization at peace talks [06.02.2013] | At peace talks in Cuba, Colombian guerrilla group the FARC outlined a proposal to legalize drug consumption and cultivation, complementing reforms th ... |
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 ... |
Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
USAID's Alternative Development policy in Colombia [15.10.2011] | Alternative Development (AD) must not be part of a militarised security strategy, which is the predominant approach in Colombia. Instead of simply at ... |
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
War Without End [07.06.2008] | An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last on 3 Jun ... |
Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru [01.03.2005] | The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated so ... |
Plan Afghanistan [01.01.2005] | In November 2004 an unknown mystery plane sprayed opium poppy fields in eastern Afghanistan. Although the US denied any involvement, the US State Dep ... |
Cross Purposes [01.06.2003] | The anti-drug strategy in Colombia limits the establishment of the basic political conditions necessary to attain the socio-economic goals of alterna ... |
A Failed Balance [01.03.2002] | In the area of failed alternative development (AD) projects, the Andean region has its sorry share to contribute. The constant peasant uprisings n th ... |
Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
Full scope on the War on Drugs [30.04.1998] | An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming ... |
Background briefing on UNGASS [24.03.1998] | Background on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drug Control Martin Jelsma TNI Briefing, March 1998 The "Special Session of the ... |
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