US President Barack Obama recently toured across Central America, meeting Heads of State and discussing security and economic development in the region. He met with the Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto and President Chinchilla of Costa Rica, among others. The aim was to promote a broader role for economic development in reducing organised crime across the region, with a reduced focus on militaristic intervention.
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Bolivia plan to denounce UN Single Convention ...
Bolivia, in a protest move for the cause of the rights of indigenous peoples to practice their own traditions, free from what the Global Commission on Drug Policy called “drug control imperialism” have announced a plan to denounce and re-accede...
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CDC report that Prescription Painkiller overd ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported that the level of overdose deaths caused by prescription painkillers in the US has now eclipsed the overdose deaths caused by heroin and cocaine combined. The CDC warn that prescription...
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Portugal and the Drug War
Helen Redmond for Al Jazeera – 23/11/2011 Chicago, IL - The War on Drugs is a global war without end. The battle takes more prisoners than all conventional wars combined and yet the availability of psychoactive substances never significantly diminishes....
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