At a summit in Colombia this week, Obama will have the opportunity to have an honest conversation about our failed drug policy and how desperately we need reform.
Amid a dramatic turn of events in the drug policy debate, the challenge will be to sustain this momentum, even as the U.S. government works desperately to suppress it.
Latin American leaders are increasingly speaking out against prohibition. And public opinion in America, especially when it comes to legalizing pot, is shifting very rapidly.
The murder and "disappearance" of vast numbers of Colombians is part and parcel of the U.S.'s policy to "drain the sea [the civilian population] to kill the fish [the insurgents]."
Emily Dickinson, Washington Monthly. January 16, 2012.
Colombia’s incredible turnaround strategy has become a rare success story in the drug war, as well as its most formidable brand and export. It is, however, problematic.
The US appears to be repeating its historically catastrophic strategy of propping up human rights abusers and simplistically relying on militarization to root out social problems.
Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, AlterNet. March 15, 2007.
Bush was greeted by protesters filling the streets of Guatemala City this week to denounce a heartless immigration raid in Massachusetss which jailed hundreds of workers, and separated many from their children without warning.
