Items tagged with peace
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| Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed [08.08.2022] | Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feud ... |
| War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds [29.06.2022] | The punitive, prohibitionist war on drugs helped prolong Colombia’s disastrous civil war, the country’s truth commission has found, in a landmark rep ... |
| ‘I will be left with nothing’: Why Colombians are watching the U.S. election closely [02.11.2020] | Coca fumigations started in Colombia in the early 1990s and intensified during “Plan Colombia,” a $10 billion U.S. campaign that ran from 2000 to 201 ... |
| Colombia lawmakers seek to take control of cocaine market. It’s a long shot [21.09.2020] | Legislators weary of Colombia’s whack-a-mole anti-narcotics efforts propose to stop the often violent trafficking of cocaine that has plagued the cou ... |
| Glyphosate and cocaine: Colombia's next drug war? [09.03.2020] | Pedro Arenas is afraid that they'll take flight again. "I expect it could be within the next months," he says. Since the end of last year, nine AT-80 ... |
| The ‘deja vú’ of aerial crop spraying in Colombia [29.02.2020] | At the end of 2019 the government of Iván Duque presented a draft decree to resume the spraying of drug crops used for illicit purposes. It argued th ... |
| Colombia will tackle cocaine with a cancer-causing chemical. Only problem is, it won't work [21.01.2020] | The Colombian government has published a proposed law that will allow it to resume a controversial program of aerial fumigation of coca crops using g ... |
| Coca, the illicit plant that funded Colombia’s civil war, is flourishing again [10.07.2019] | It was eight years ago the last time planes came to spray poison on Noralba Quintero’s coca crop in the jungled foothills here by the mighty Magdalen ... |
| A death foretold: Colombia’s crop substitution program [01.04.2019] | The government’s failure to comply with the coca crops substitution program in Colombia has left the future of almost 100,000 families in limbo and s ... |
| Colombia continues to break records for cocaine production, report says [19.09.2018] | Colombia is desperate to shed its reputation as a nation dogged by the drug trade, but new figures from the United Nations show that it continues to ... |
| Murder in Colombia’s peace laboratory [19.07.2018] | Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with ... |
| Record coca, record murders: the flipside of “peace” in southern Colombia [20.06.2018] | Hundreds of Colombian farmers, activists, and community organisers have been killed over the past 18 months, despite the landmark peace deal that sup ... |
| Colombia sees billion-dollar bonanza from legacy of marijuana trade [03.05.2018] | Farmers who want to be part of Colombia's medical marijuana project are required to destroy their illegal crops. Colombia has already issued 33 licen ... |
| Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other [20.02.2018] | The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-subst ... |
| Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure [27.10.2017] | According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia’s overall coca crop grew by a staggering 52 percent last year, to 345,000 acres, an area te ... |
| Coca and the Colombian Peace Accords [11.08.2017] | Getting to the Briceño region in the heart of Antioquia requires an excellent vehicle, and a lot of time and luck. The week before our journey there ... |
| After decades of war, Colombian farmers face a new test: Peace [18.07.2017] | Every three months or so, Javier Tupaz, a father of six, heads downhill from his clapboard home to work in his cocaine laboratory. Under a black tent ... |
| Is Colombia sacrificing coca farmers' trust for US Aid dollars? [17.05.2017] | Colombia's defense minister divulged new coca eradication figures ahead of a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his US counte ... |
| Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords [13.03.2017] | Colombia is in the midst of a coca boom, perhaps its largest ever. The coca boom’s causes are complex, and Colombia’s government is hoping that the U ... |
| Joint statement [13.03.2017] | Exactly one year ago, in the 59th session of the CND, the Colombian government urged the international community to openly debate the results obtaine ... |
| How Santos’ new peace deal aggravated Colombia’s drug war [25.01.2017] | The chapter devoted to “solving the drug problem” in the first version of President Santos’ peace agreement was far from perfect. But it was the firs ... |
| Myanmar returns to what sells: Heroin [03.01.2015] | A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious Golden Triangle. T ... |
| Alternative Development or Business as Usual? [01.11.2010] | The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have prompted a booming rubber industry, but the beneficiaries have ... |
| Missing Targets [01.09.2007] | Despite efforts by the Afghan government and the international community to reduce poppy cultivation, opium production in Afghanistan has once again ... |
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