Amira Armenta
Amira Armenta
Assistant researcher with focus on Colombia
Amira Armenta (Colombia/Netherlands) has a degree in Latin American history from the Université de Jussieu (Paris).
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Areas of expertise:
The War on Drugs in Latin America, Drugs and conflict in ColombiaContact
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Recent content by Amira Armenta
The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context
February 2013
The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of current peace talks between the Santos government and the FARC guerrillas
A breakthrough in the making?
July 2012
There is an undeniable regional trend of moving away from the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America. This briefing explains the background, summarises the state of ongoing drug law reforms, and makes recommendations to move the debate forward.
A growing dissent
May 2012
Latin America's desire to cast aside the ideological model imposed by the United States is not new but has been advocated for two decades. The challenge now is to maintain this momentum in the face of efforts to silence the debate.
Conflict, poverty and marginalisation
July 2011
Since the 1990s, the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó communities have specifically been the target of violence and subsequent displacement.
Buying the present selling the future
October 2010
Considerations from Greenaccord’s VIII International Forum on the Protection of Nature in Cuneo, Italy
Eradications and conflict in Colombia
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
September 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.
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