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    Latijns-Amerika wil af van oorlog tegen drugs
    April 2012
    IPS & Danilo Valladares

    Nogal wat landen in Latijns-Amerika willen af van de oorlog tegen drugs. De oorlog, die vooral in Mexico en Centraal-Amerika een zware tol eist, heeft gefaald, zeggen ze. Ze zullen dit weekend op de Top van de Amerika's pleiten voor alternatieven.

    Drugs on Latin America summit's agenda
    April 2012
    Martin Jelsma

    A critical rethink of the war on drugs features prominently on the agenda of the Cartagena summit. This provides opportunities to move forward but also faces several risks that could suffocate the remarkable yet incipient political opening of the drugs debate in Latin America.

    The War on Colombia’s Poor
    January 2012
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

    USAID's Alternative Development policy in Colombia
    October 2011
    Ricardo Vargas

    Alternative Development as practised by USAID and the Colombia government was always guided more by security rather than development considerations. This report examines the key aspects of USAID's alternative development policy and its implementation in Colombia during the last decade. A...

    Drug Policy Briefing Nr. 38
    Conflict, poverty and marginalisation
    July 2011
    Amira Armenta

    Since the 1990s, the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó communities have specifically been the target of violence and subsequent displacement.

    Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
    July 2011
    Jun Borras

    Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.

    Alternative Development from the perspective of Colombian farmers
    July 2011
    Susana Ojeda

    There is considerable debate on whether Alternative Development is successful from the point of view of experts and politicians, but what do Colombian farmers targeted by these programmes think and what are the implications for their daily lives?

    Drug Policy Briefing No. 36
    Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage
    March 2011
    Cecilia Olivet
     Paulina Novo

    Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.

    Colombia: A successful case for the war on drugs?
    January 2011
    Ricardo Vargas

    Is Colombia's narcotrafficking situation comparable to that of Mexico, including the strategies needed to combat it?

    The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru
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    October 2010
    Thomas Fritz

    The neoliberal FTAs pursued by the EU with Colombia and Peru threaten to exacerbate human rights abuses - which include killings of trade unionists, forced expropriations of indigenous people from land, and environmental destruction - for the sake of corporate profit.

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