Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pavol Stracansky BUCHAREST, Oct 28, 2010 (IPS) – Central and Eastern Europe is facing "significant challenges" in combating a multi-billion euro, and often lethal, trade in fake medicines, security and pharmaceutical groups have warned. The region has been identified as a key smuggling route in an illicit [...]
Honduras Worried About Becoming Narco-State
October 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thelma Mejía TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Fears of becoming a narco-state have prompted Honduras to refocus its anti-drug strategy, in order to block the infiltration of Mexican drug cartels, which are moving southward into Central America, experts told IPS. This week’s visit by U.S. Assistant [...]
Mexico’s New War: Sex Trafficking
October 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally published on the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA website Read the original article on the COHA site. by COHA Research Associate Melissa Graham The “War on Drugs” as viewed in Mexico and the U.S. is changing. No longer are President Felipe Calderón, the police, and Mexican military forces fighting [...]
BURMA: Heroin Trade Tears Social Fabric of Ethnic Minorities
September 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – Dustbins in a university toilet rarely elicit a second look, but those at one of the oldest universities in Burma’s Kachin State do offer reason to pause. The bins, after all, collect a special form of garbage disposed of [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Peru Urges Regional Alliance Against Drug Trade
September 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Sep 27, 2010 (IPS) – The nations of Latin America must ally themselves — regardless of their roles as drug producers, consumers or transit routes — in a full-force fight against drug trafficking, says Peru, which plans to lead the way. The Peruvian government [...]
Laos Burns Drugs – Criminal Syndicates Survive
July 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TOKYO (IDN) – Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, has made significant strides in combating the scourge of illicit opium production and addiction, says a new report by the United Nations, but warns of serious problems arising from the country becoming a [...]
New U.S. Drug Strategy Still Heavy on Enforcement
May 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, May 11 (IPS) – Along with an expanded focus on domestic prevention and treatment, the U.S. will make a renewed effort to disrupt the flow of narcotics into its borders and weapons and money out of them, according to the White House’s long-anticipated National [...]
MEXICO: Children in the Line of Fire in Ciudad Juárez
May 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Pastrana CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico, May 10 (IPS) – In Ciudad Juárez, the most violent city in Latin America, Mexico’s war on drugs has left at least 110 children dead in the past three years, and over 10,000 have lost parents. Civil society organisations are urging the authorities elected [...]
MEXICO: Soundtrack to Violence
April 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Apr 2 (IPS) – ”What a sad childhood Juanito had/ when shooting started in his barrio/ he was left lying on the ground/ so young/ he went to his grave”. This is a verse from ”Carlitos”, one of the songs of the Mexican hip hop [...]
New Afghan Record – World’s Largest Hashish Producer
April 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Bob Narmer IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) – New sad record for the U.S. and NATO occupied Afghanistan: in addition to being the largest opium producer on Earth and hosting the world’s biggest ‘secret’ detention centre practicing torture – Baghram – it now leads global hashish production. The data [...]
