The government of newly elected Peruvian President Ollanta Humala announced this week that it is suspending the US-backed coca eradication program in the Upper Huallaga Valley, the only ongoing eradication program in the country. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Peru has surpassed Colombia as the world's largest coca leaf producer, although Colombia maintains a slight lead in cocaine production.
[image:1 align:left caption:true]The Upper Huallaga isn't Peru's largest coca growing area — that distinction belongs to the Ene and Apurimac River Valleys (VRAE in the Spanish acronym), …

by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking corporations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, prohibition-related violence has killed around 40,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The accumulating militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs — …

by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking consortiums make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the proscriptionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, proscription-related violence has killed around 40,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The multiplying militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs — …

by Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking aggregations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the restrictionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, restriction-related violence has killed around 40,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The multiplying militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs — …

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has now officially broken with the war on drugs. At its 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles Tuesday, the nation's oldest and largest black advocacy group passed an historic resolution calling for an end to the drug war.
[image:1 align:left caption:true]The title of the resolution pretty much says it all: "A Call to End the War on Drugs, Allocate Funding to Investigate Substance Abuse Treatment, Education, and Opportunities in Communities of Color for A Better Tomorrow."
"Today the NAACP has taken a …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking cartels make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the proscriptionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, proscription-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The enlarging militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking teams make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the disallowanceist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, disallowance-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The accumulating militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking cartels make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the restrictionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, restriction-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The increasing militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug traffickers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking corporations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the restrictionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, restriction-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The enlarging militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking cartels make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the forbiddanceist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, forbiddance-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The multiplying militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug traffickers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …