Publications by Drugs and Democracy

  • This monograph argues that although the United Wa State Party (UWSP) has been branded by the international community as a "narco-trafficking army;' the organization has an ethnic nationalist agenda whose aim is to build a Wa state within Burma.

    October 2007
  • A collection of ten papers that analyse the relationship between drugs and conflict in Burma and the consequences of the Burmese illicit drugs economy for neighbouring countries.

    July 2005
  • Aerial fumigations with herbicides of drug crops in Colomba set in motion a vicious circle of human, social and environmental destruction. A worldwide campaign calls for the end of these harmful and inefficient forced eradication practices.

    March 2001
  • The purpose of this report is to evaluate the effectiveness and impacts of one of the key US supply side-interdiction programs in the War on Drugs in Latin America.

    May 1999
  • Democracias bajo fuego illustrates that the current repressive drug policies create more damage than that they produce solutions in Latin America.

    and others
    May 1998
  • Crime in Uniform presents detailed case studies examining the involvement of Latin American security forces in the illicit drug industry.

    Theo Roncken, Frank Smyth, Carlos Fazio, Thelma Mejía, Samuel Blixen, Jayme Brener
    April 1997
  • The following essays present insights into the various levels of military involvement in the war on drugs and the implications of this involvement in terms of democracy and human rights in the Western hemisphere.

    TNI, Cedib and Inforpress Centroamericana
    April 1997