Latin America

Events

Uncharted waters: U.S. Military action in the Caribbean

Hybrid Event | 1666 Connecticut Avenue NW or online

5 November 2025 - 5 November 2025

WOLA and Amnesty International are hosting a hybrid event on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, to discuss U.S. military action in the Caribbean.

News3 November 2025

Facts to Inform the Debate about the U.S. Government’s Anti-Drug Offensive in the Americas

The Trump administration's deadly Caribbean strikes have killed 65 civilians, left a trail of violence, displacement, and broken communities. WOLA uncovers the human cost of militarized drug control, and calls for an evidence-based, humane alternative.

Events

From forest to dust: Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the prohibition of the coca and cocaine production chain in the Amazon basin and Brazil

Zoom

Ahead of COP30, this webinar will discuss the findings of a new report on the impact of drug prohibition in the Brazilian Amazon, showing how criminalisation has prevented meaningful climate justice.

Publications15 October 2025

Scientific distinctions between coca and cocaine support policy reform

White et al. argue that scientific, cultural and legal evidence clearly distinguishes coca from cocaine — and that global drug policy must correct this long-standing misclassification rooted in colonial bias.

News15 October 2025

Descheduling the coca leaf is overdue justice - IDPC statement to the 48th meeting of WHO's ECDD

IDPC urged experts to end a colonial injustice, calling for the coca leaf to be descheduled and Indigenous traditions and rights fully recognised.

Publications14 October 2025

Statement by traditional coca leaf producers and consumers to the World Health Organization

Traditional coca leaf producers and consumers from Peru reject their government’s stance before the WHO, urging the organisation to deschedule coca, recognise its cultural and medicinal uses, and support research and rights-based policies

News14 October 2025

Coca isn’t just for cocaine, Bolivia wants the world to know

Bolivia's campaign to remove the coca leaf from the list of the world’s most dangerous drugs highlights the plant's cultural, medicinal and economic importance — and its potential to reshape global drug policy.

News2 October 2025

WHO review: Coca not harmful, prohibition is

Explicit recognition of widespread public health harms of repressive control efforts could positively influence expert recommendation on the schedule of the coca leaf.

IDPC in the Media2 October 2025

Despite rift with U.S., can Colombia revolutionize global drug policy?

Foreign Policy Thumb: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

News2 October 2025

Despite rift with U.S., can Colombia revolutionize global drug policy?

Amid a rapidly shifting diplomatic landscape, Colombia has emerged as a potential leader of global non-prohibitionist drug policy reform, but the sustainability of these efforts remains uncertain.

News25 September 2025

Decolonising drug policy: Protecting the coca leaf and Indigenous rights – Statement to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

IDPC and five other organisations called on the UN to correct historic injustices, respect Indigenous perspectives, and address the harmful impacts of current drug policies.

News24 September 2025

America is blowing up boats and asking questions later

Trump’s drug war playbook looks disturbingly like Duterte’s, the Philippine leader now facing trial for crimes against humanity.

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