
Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America
According to a new study, throughout Latin America non-violent drug offenders are being imprisoned, violating human rights and overloading the region’s prison system.
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According to a new study, throughout Latin America non-violent drug offenders are being imprisoned, violating human rights and overloading the region’s prison system.
This report reveals that the DAS was not only spying, but also carried out dirty tricks and even death threats on major players in Colombia’s democracy.
WOLA’s report, “Development First,” demonstrates why it is no coincidence that policies that worsen poverty and undermine governance cannot achieve their drug control aims.
A new report outlines a just and effective foreign policy toward Colombia.
WOLA’s plan for an overhaul of U.S.-Latin America relations gives the next administration important recommendations on how the United States can rebuild its standing in Latin America by putting relations on a new footing based on engagement, respect, and collective action on common challenges.
Intensive aerial herbicide spraying of coca crops in Colombia has backfired badly, contributing to the spread of coca cultivation and cocaine production to new areas of the country and threatening human health and the environment.
A guide to U.S.-Latin America policy issues for first-term Members of Congress
This major work is the first systematic, region-wide documentation and analysis of the collateral damage caused by the U.S. war on drugs.
A report providing alternatives and recommendations for U.S. policy in Colombia to substantially shift aid from a security-first package to a more balanced plan with economic and social support.
The February 2005 issue of CrossCurrents, which covers the Bush administration’s trade and development agenda, challenges in Colombia, the Pentagon’s drug war authority, and recent WOLA activities and publications.
The October 2003 issue of CrossCurrents, which celebrates the creation of CICIACS in Guatemala and discusses WOLA’s civil society delegation to Colombia, Lula’s first year in office, prospects for a free trade agreement with Central America, and Cuba’s crackdown on dissidents.
The June 2002 issue of CrossCurrents.
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