The darker side of the US-Colombia war on drugs (Part 1/3)
Anti-drug trafficking and production policies are a hot topic these days. On March 13th, several Latin American countries spoke at the United Nations about the need for a new framework…
Anti-drug trafficking and production policies are a hot topic these days. On March 13th, several Latin American countries spoke at the United Nations about the need for a new framework…
Colombian Ministry of Defense told EFE at the end of 2013 that the Colombian military had received over 450 million dollars in revenue that year. Now that a peace agreement…
Is there a formula to describe why and how governments repress people who take to the streets to protest? Can we make sense of why tanks, anti-riots police and chemical…
How do people get what they want from their governments? Some simply lobby for what they want. These people may include those with high positions of power, such as politicians,…
What role and oversight should the military have? This question has a long and loaded history in Latin America[1]. Argentina, Chile, Brasil and Uruguay experienced some of the longest and…
Foreigners and citizens often think of Colombia as a land of paradoxes. Though the country is filled with natural resources and biodiversity, it was recently ranked third most unequal in the…