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Semiautomatic assault rifles imported to the United States account for significant portions of the arsenals of Mexico’s drug cartels.
The message could not be any clearer: in Mexico’s Tlatlaya case, soldiers were instructed to take out, or kill, suspected criminals, in complete disregard for their human rights and due process.
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In a paper produced for a Brookings Institution policy brief series, John Walsh and Geoff Ramsey review Uruguay’s pioneering policies that legalize and regulate every level of the market for cannabis.
Mexico’s Southern Border Plan was announced in July 2014 and has coincided with a sharp increase in deportations from Mexico.
With Congress debating a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, the issue of border security is in the spotlight. But while some in Washington quarrel over a nebulous “crisis” at the border, a lesser-known—but in many ways more grim—situation is playing out in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley region.
In a this report published jointly by WOLA and the Brookings Institution, John Walsh and Wells Bennett analyze the new legal, regulated marijuana markets in the context of existing international drug treaties.
The report finds that the state of Colorado has largely succeeded in rolling out a legal marijuana system, and its early implementation efforts have been impressive. This report details what has been successful, how Colorado has achieved an effective rollout, and what challenges remain.
Cuba’s new labor code and foreign investment law both raise important questions about the future of social protections and labor rights in Cuba’s changing economy.
In February 2014, WOLA investigators paid a 12-day visit to several points along Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. Their new report examines border security conditions, migration trends, and the push factors that force Central American migrants to abandon their countries of origin.
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