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.
Awarded the Simon Bolivar Prize 1997
Damaging Side Effects: The War on Drugs (Introduction)
Martin Jelsma
The US War on Drugs: On the Wrong Path
Coletta Youngers
Radical Maneuvers
Jayme Brener
Argentina: Future Watchdog of the Americas?
Adriana Rossi
Colombia: The Heresy of the Manicheans
Ricardo Vargas Meza
The Armed Forces and the Drug War: Between Garrisons, Caletas and Borders
Ricardo Soberón Garrido
Central America: On the Brink of a New War?
Edgar Celada Q. and Sandra Dávila
Bolivia: Impunity and the Control of Corruption in the Fight against Drugs
Theo Roncken
The Double Role of Drug Trafficking in State Terrorism and Militarized Democracy
Samuel Blixen
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