
In the Face of Violence, Catatumbo’s Communities Call for Solidarity
Failed peace negotiations and the battle for control over valuable territory have produced an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe ...

Subsistence-Based, Non-Repressive Drug Programs Actually Work
There is half as much coca in Bolivia than both Peru and Colombia, where forced eradication persists. How does Bolivia ...

ENTER THE GREEN BERETS
"UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE permit a militarization of the struggle against drug trafficking." The words ofa coca producer or ...

Meanwhile, in Bolivia
The political battle waged on Capitol Hill fails to take into account the drug war's toll on human rights and ...

Going to the Source
A grizzled group of men gathers every evening on the veranda of Tingo Marla's Hotel de Turistas to drink beer ...

The Only War We’ve Got”. Drug Enforcement in Latin America
To date, U.S. taxpayers have provided nearly $290 billion for the war on drugs, yet cocaine and heroin are more ...

The Forefathers of Crack
AS UNIQUELY PERPLEXING AS THE SCOURGE of cocaine may seem, it is but the youngest of a long lineage of ...

DOES THE POPE DO DOPE?
WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL II VISITED BOLIVIA last year, the press published daily accounts of the number of cups of ...