The United States Justice Department has a National Drug Intelligence Center that, among other things, recently issued its “Nat
Rather than a “free trade” agreement between the United States and Colombia, the plan that will be sent to Congress should be understood as a corporate and financial liberalization agreement. Workers, in Colombia and the United States, have little to gain, and everything to lose. This article was originally published in the May/June 2011 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas.
During the 1980s Colombian narcotraffickers fought ferociously against being extradited to the United States.
A collision of world views has been on display this year in relation to the parameters of drug control as overseen by the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).