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Amira Armenta

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Email: amira AT tni dot org
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Drugs and Democracy
Blog on Colombia and Drugs (spanish)
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).

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

 Spanish, English

Recent content by Amira Armenta

A growing dissent (20 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 (25 Jul 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 (28 Oct 2010)

Considerations from Greenaccord’s VIII International Forum on the Protection of Nature in Cuneo, Italy

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.

On Politics and Drugs: A Look at the Recent Events (14 Aug 2006)
Varata una inaccettabile legge di amnistia per i gruppi armati pace da caricatura (18 May 2006)
Varata una inaccettabile legge di amnistia per i gruppi armati pace da caricatura (18 May 2006)
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.

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