Puppet Underground and IPS expert, Sanho Tree, will give a report back from their trip to Chihuahua, Mexico this past December, where they partnered with several community groups doing music and puppetry workshops. The trip culminated in a Fandango on the border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, TX on December 11th.
During the campaign Obama said his favorite TV show was The Wire. He “gets” injustice, but he missed his chance to demonstrate leadership tonight.
Despite the horrific casualties from the War on Drugs, most elected leaders are fearful of seeking peace.
The murder of women and the escalating war on drugs reveal a Mexican system with blood on its hands.
The Costa Rican government approves deployment of U.S. Coast Guard.
Drug enforcement in Ghana targets only the small dealers.
In the war against drug cartels, Mexican police and military often work at cross-purposes to each other.
Let’s make getting busted for marijuana possession like getting a speeding ticket.
Calderon’s launching of the war against traffickers was like hitting a beehive with a stick–without a plan for what to do next.
According to the 2006 report of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime/Ministry of Counternarcotics, Opium production in Afghanistan has skyrocketed since the U.S. military teamed with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance in toppling the Taliban in 2001, with Afghanistan now supplying 92 percent of the world’s illicit opium.
Its symbolic importance to Latin America cannot be under-estimated.
A gift horse for us, from the Gringos?
Our troops are defending a country that routinely fuels America’s narcotics problem.
It is the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s independence and the 100th anniversary of its revolution. But the celebrations taking place this week are premature.
The only thing surprising about Clinton’s horrifying proposal to apply a Colombian model to Mexico is that she said it out loud, reports columnist Laura Carlsen.