Amira Armenta

Email: amira AT tni dot org
Phone: + 31 20 662 66 08

Location: 
Canadá
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Assistant researcher with focus on Colombia

Amira Armenta (Colombia/Netherlands) has a degree in Latin American history from the Université de Jussieu (Paris).

The War on Drugs in Latin America, Drugs and conflict in Colombia

 Spanish, English

Recent content by Amira Armenta

Eradications and conflict in Colombia (19 May 2008)
While the coca farmer is treated as a criminal the road to peace in the Colombian countryside will remain closed.

Although more and more coca is being eradicated, production levels remain steady. According to the latest Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), published in March 2008, more and more coca is being eradicated in South America. Despite this, the total area sown has remained stable in the region, as has the total production in metric tons of cocaine. In the case of Colombia, 23 per cent more was eradicated in 2006 than in 2005.

FARC was niet de enige optie voor Tanja (17 Sep 2007)

Er zijn genoeg andere linkse organisaties in Europa die zich met Colombia bezighouden. Tanja Nijmeijer zou in haar drang om de Colombiaanse armen te helpen geen andere keus hebben dan zich bij FARC aan te sluiten. Het tegendeel is waar.

Useful Narcoterrorism (1 Mar 2005)
Forward Operating Locations in Latin America (19 Sep 2003)

This issue of Drugs & Conflict explains the background to and operation of the US Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in Ecuador, El Salvador and Aruba/Curacao, established since 1999.

Breaking the Impasse (19 Jul 2002)

This issue of Drugs & Conflict attempts to outline the possibilities for a breakthrough in the current impasse of the current international drug control regime.

A Failed Balance (20 Mar 2002)

This Drugs & Conflict debate paper elucidates the analysis TNI contributed to a high-level international policy conference to evaluate 25 years of Alternative Development.

Merging Wars (20 Dec 2001)

With the new international context of the war against terrorism, the war on drugs moves centre stage as well. While drugs and terrorism are now shoved together to demonise the ‘evil’ enemy, reality is the victim. Blending the two wars to one seriously endangers the advances made to find a solution to the drug problem.

 
 
 
 

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