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Relating this vote to the 2012 legalization of marijuana by the U.S. states Colorado and Washington, John Walsh, drug policy expert of the Washington Office on Latin America, stated that "Uruguay's timing is right.
This has lead to notable traffickers and kingpins like El Chapo (Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera) being extradited to face real time behind bars in the United States. Drug Trafficking from Latin America has played a major role in the United States for the past 50 years. Most notably in Miami when cocaine production skyrocketed in the 1970s. [6]
Coca eradication in Colombia. Coca eradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "war on drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine.
The Mexican president said Latin American countries need to support the United States in its fight against fentanyl out of a "moral obligation" and "humanism." "They are facing a pandemic," Lopez ...
The romantic or family attachments of women in the drug trade are often used to minimize or marginalize them as protagonists. Emma’s role as El Chapo’s wife is a great example.
US drug policy is also heavily invested in foreign policy, supporting military and paramilitary actions in South America, Central Asia, and other places to eradicate the growth of coca and opium. In Colombia, U.S. president Bill Clinton dispatched military and paramilitary personnel to interdict the planting of coca, as a part of the Plan ...
Current and former U.S. officials say the bizarre episode is symptomatic of just how badly the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated in what used to be called the drug war — at ...
The balloon effect is a criticism of United States drug policy.The name draws an analogy between efforts to eradicate the production of illegal drugs in South American countries and squeezing a balloon: If a balloon is squeezed the air is moved, but does not disappear, instead moving into another area of less resistance.