A new report from a renowned Mexican crime analyst says that 71.5 percent of the nation’s municipalities are under criminal control. But the reality of illicit activity can hardly be described through a simple label like “control”.
The book “Latin America debates on drugs” gathers the presentations made at the I and II Latin American Conferences on Drug Policy, that took place in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The report consists of a summary of the national drug situation presenting brief information in key areas (drugs prevalence, prevention, harm reduction, drug laws etc.).
Este relatório apresenta uma pesquisa sobre o papel desempenhado pela polícia, pequenos traficantes de droga e utilizadores de droga no comércio de droga de rua no Tajiquistão.
No início de Novembro, um painel dirigido no Centro de Cooperação Cultural em Buenos Aires, lançou o livro “O Debate das Drogas na América Latina”, que reúne as apresentações feitas na 1ª e 2ª Conferência Latino-Americana sobre Políticas de Drogas, que se realizou em Buenos Aires e no Rio de Janeiro, em 2009 e 2010 respectivamente.
A revisão deste país dá-nos um sinopse estruturada das tendências e características dos problemas nacionais de droga no Kosovo (sob UNSR 1244/99) em 2010.
Far from eliminating drug use and the illicit trade, prohibition has inadvertently fuelled the development of the world’s largest illegal commodities market – a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars, controlled solely by criminal profiteers.
Highlighting the role of cooperation between law enforcement agencies in different countries, the study points to the need for a better understanding of illicit amphetamine markets to underpin a more effective and informed policy response.
This year has seen a dramatic rise in the number of people – many impoverished – who are executed for drug offences in Iran, Amnesty International said in a new report.
