Tag Archives : Colombia

The long–extending ‘war on drugs’ began in May 1971 when former US President Richard Nixon actually proclaimed a so-called “war on drugs.” Ever since, the US and the Western Hemisphere have not won such a war, with every proclaimed victory ending up a fiasco. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Mexico and Jamaica pummeled marijuana producers. [...]

Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working [...]

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his colleague from Chile, Michelle Bachelet, demonstrated dissatisfaction in relation to the agreement that the neighbor Colombia should sign next weeks with the United States to increase the American troops in three American military bases that exist at the country. The Colombian government, the [...]

A report of the Congress of the USA notices about a strong penetration of the drug traffic in Venezuela, with a very significant increase of the volume of exports of drugs and of the complicity in the high civil and military authorities that collaborate and they protect to guerrilla and the Colombian criminal organizations. Substantially, the report [...]

Designer drugs like Ecstasy and crystal meth are on the rise worldwide. On the other hand, the demand for conventional drugs such as cocaine and cannabis decreases. These are some of the conclusions presented in the recently published World Drug Report by the United Nations. Global demand for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis is stagnant or shrinking, [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has shown Friday 20, that the area of cultivation of the coca leaf declined by 18 thousand hectares in 2008 in Colombia, for the previous year. But in Bolivia and Peru, there was an increase of 6% and 4.5% respectively. Between 2007 and 2008, the cultivation of coca in Colombia rose from 99 hectares [...]

Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa criticized the unfounded discrimination experienced by some Mexican citizens in other countries due to the fear of infection from the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu. At a press conference, the secretary said that she was surprised with the decision of ‘brother’ countries such as [...]

The UN Security Council urges Member States to act vigorously to end impunity for those who violate children’s rights by recruiting them to become child soldiers. The agency also reiterated its condemnation of the employment of children in war by combatant sides, as well as violence and sexual abuse of children who are victims in armed conflicts. Recruitment [...]

The Colombian leftist guerrilla forces known as the FARC has been holding hundreds of hostages, both Colombians and foreigners. Swedish Erik Ronald Larsson, the last foreigner who was kidnapped in Colombia by the FARC, has regained his freedom from the rural area of Tierradentro in the northwest province of Cordoba. Larsson, a forestry engineer who [...]

The bodies could have been buried between 2002 and 2005 supposedly by FARC guerrillas. The mass graves were discovered in an area in the south of the country. The Colombian government has moved in to investigate in the municipality of La Macarena after allegations which villagers relayed to an NGO that advocates human rights. According to sources, one [...]