Según la investigadora y fundadora de Acción Semilla Patricia Chulver, Argentina, el norte de Chile, Ecuador y España son mercados potenciales para la coca boliviana, por lo que urge trabajar en políticas desde la Cancillería para poder llegar a estos mercados.

“Mercados potenciales de la exportación de la coca boliviana son Argentina, norte de Chile y norte de Ecuador. Otro dato es que el consumo de hoja de coca en España, en harina de coca por ejemplo, es bien cotizado y es bastante amplio. Tanto así que en 2016 salió en periódicos, en revistas y noticias que había un boom de la coca en España. La coca boliviana es súper cotizada en Europa y hay toda una cadena de producción de licores a base de coca que, hasta hace unos años, se decía que era coca boliviana y tenía la cara de Evo Morales. Pero no, es coca peruana, porque los peruanos son los únicos que realmente exportan con todo lo legal la hoja coca afuera”, comentó la investigadora.

En internet se puede encontrar, por ejemplo, la bebida “Coca Blue”, supuestamente elaborada con coca boliviana

Por otro lado, Chulver señala que es importante trabajar en una hoja de ruta para exportar la coca y que esta iniciativa debería ser una prioridad para la Cancillería.

Argentina, Ecuador y España son potenciales mercados para la coca boliviana

Las políticas de "guerra contra las drogas" contribuyen a la destrucción de nuestro planeta. Por ello, la regulación ambientalmente sostenible debe formar parte de las estrategias de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Global drug policy is denying climate justice

The so called ‘war on drugs’ is not only destroying our planet through harmful attempts to eradicate illicit drugs – it is a barrier to climate mitigation and adaptation strategies in the very places they are needed most.

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The majority of the multi-billion dollar profits from the illicit drugs trade are held by organized crime groups. These powerful, entrenched state and non-state actors are corrupting and rendering entire governments dysfunctional.

Many of the countries most weakened by the illicit drugs trade are those who host ecosystems that have the greatest potential for capturing carbon. These forests follow the same equatorial line of the main producing and trafficking routes of the illicit drugs trade.

The ability of these governments to act on climate mitigation strategies, such as protect and restore forests, and deliver climate resilient development are undermined because they do not control these jurisdictions. Drug cartels do. Through violence, bribery and corruption these groups infiltrate and manipulate governments to ensure their profits are protected.

We urgently need to legally regulate the illicit drugs trade, to prevent ecological harms of the trade and to take the power away from organised crime, so that the trade does not continue to intensify the climate crisis.

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We need to accept that this trade will never go away, and instead regulate it in a way that works for people and the planet – not against.

Health Poverty Action is committed to campaigning on the root causes of poverty and inequality and removing the barriers to the health of people and the planet.

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Justicia climática y política de drogas

Contribuciones de ONG y otras entidades expertas son bienvenidas antes del 23 de septiembre. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Commission recommendation on the implementation of alternatives to coercive sanctions as response to drug law offences and drug-related crimes.

The European Commission has started an initiative regarding an alternative response to drug law offences; these alternatives will be evidence-based and their recommended implementation is designed to provide essential support to people who need assistance due to drug use or problems with addiction. The below exert details the aims of this initiative.

“According to a report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, people who use drugs are eight times more likely to commit a crime than those who do not. Similarly, people in prison are substantially more likely than their peers in the community to have used drugs, to use drugs regularly or to experience drug-related problems. Indeed, some start using drugs while in this setting. There is, therefore, a vicious and costly circle of crime and drug use; nevertheless, drug-related treatment can be effective in breaking it. Furthermore, alternatives to coercive sanctions can contribute to alleviating prison overcrowding, recidivism, addiction, and problem drug use and related negative health effects. They may also have a positive economic impact since they are generally less expensive than incarceration.



Currently, alternatives to coercive sanctions are underused. Sometimes, they face problems and barriers linked to their design, implementation and delivery, and fail to deliver on their intended outcomes. One barrier to the implementation of alternatives to coercive sanctions is a lack of local coordination between stakeholders. For example, those deciding on the sanctions often do not learn about the outcome, and stop applying them in subsequent cases due to lack of feedback. Furthermore, availability of data on the implementation and outcomes of the various alternatives to coercive sanctions needs to be improved.



Experience of drug use is more frequently reported by males (50.6 million) than females (32.8 million). At the European level, 62% of women in prison and 41% of men in prison have used an illicit drug before imprisonment. The increase in drug use during imprisonment is more pronounced in women than in men. Thus, women in prison are disproportionately affected by drug use compared with the general population.



This initiative is necessary to fulfil the intention, under the EU Drugs Action Plan 2021-2025, to ‘scale up the availability, effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of measures provided as alternatives to coercive sanctions’. Without action at EU level, alternatives to coercive sanctions will remain underused and the barriers they face will remain. Their design, implementation and delivery will remain fragmented. They will continue to be applied imprecisely and therefore ineffectively. The differential effect on marginalised groups will remain dependent on societal attitudes.”

The feedback period for the initiative is open 26 August 2022 – 23 September 2022 (midnight Brussels time), the Commission would like to hear your views to help further develop and fine-tune this initiative.

View details of the full initiative and how to provide feedback here.

Llamado a contribuciones: Iniciativa de la Comisión Europea relativa a las alternativas a las sanciones coercitivas en respuesta a los delitos relacionados con las drogas

Pese a haber experimentado una disminución durante el punto más álgido de la pandemia del COVID-19, recientemente los asesinatos han cobrado mayor ritmo en medio de la agitación social y reducida presión internacional. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

A recent press release from Amnesty in July 2022 highlighted a spike in Iranian executions, where at least 251 people had been executed in the first half of 2022. This report was confirmed by local Iranian watchdog organisations, noting that more than a third of these executions (36%, or 91 people) had been for drug-related offences. This rise represents a rapid escalation in state-sponsored violence, occurring within a context of raising political unrest in the nation.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) has been monitoring executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran for the past 17 years. According to several reports gathered by them, demonstrate that there had been at least 126 people that were executed for drug-related offences in 2021, a five-fold increase in comparison with the previous three years.

IHR’s work is particularly vital to reporting drug-related deaths, as the Iranian government often hides their executions: IHR said that none of the drug-related executions in 2021 were reported by the state, having instead to verify the deaths through independent sources. Of the 251 conducted in the first half of 2022, only 31 were confirmed by domestic media or government officials.

Noticias

Argentina, Ecuador y España son potenciales mercados para la coca boliviana

Justicia climática y política de drogas

Llamado a contribuciones: Iniciativa de la Comisión Europea relativa a las alternativas a las sanciones coercitivas en respuesta a los delitos relacionados con las drogas

Están nuevamente en aumento las ejecuciones relacionadas con drogas en Irán