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War on Drugs Archive
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![A day after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s inauguration, opposition leaders met with the new leader to sign the “Pact for Mexico”, a bipartisan agreement to increase economic cooperation and improve the stability in a country notorious for its violent drug war and devastating corruption.[1] The current plague of instability...](http://www.coha.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/pena.jpg "New Concerns for President Peña Nieto: Hezbollah’s Rising Profile in Mexico")
New Concerns for President Peña Nieto: Hezbollah’s Rising Profile in Mexico
By J.T. Larrimore, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on December 18, 2012 | 3 CommentsA day after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s inauguration, opposition leaders met with the new leader to sign the “Pact for Mexico”, a bipartisan agreement to increase economic cooperation and improve the stability in a country notorious for its violent drug war and devastating corruption.[1] The current plague of instability... -
Re: “U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America”
By Atrina Mehdipour, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on November 16, 2012 | 2 CommentsDear Editor, Your November 7 article, “U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America,” indicates that the newly enacted marijuana legislations in Colorado and the State of Washington may have had an adverse effect on the profits of Mexican drug cartels. Although narcotics are their main source... -
Drug Legalization in Latin America: Could it be the Answer?
By Gene Bolton, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on October 16, 2012 | 5 CommentsLast March, Central American nations held a drug legalization summit in Antigua, Guatemala. As the host of the summit, Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina suggested that production, consumption, and sales of narcotics should be regulated and legalized.1 In April, current strategies to fight the war on drugs received frequent criticism at... -
Re: “Navy: Withdraw the Army”
By Kate Hayden, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on September 17, 2012 | No CommentsDear Editor, Your September 4th article, “Navy: Withdraw the Army,” discusses the anti-drug trafficking recommendations made by Mexican military officials but then neglects to analyze the corresponding implications of what they called for. Mexican Naval Secretary Saynez warns against excessive use of army resources in the war on drugs, while... -
“War on Drugs” Comes to Miskito Territory; Claims Innocent Lives
By Larry Birns, Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and Dr. Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow, with additional contributions from Research Associate Zachary Petroni on May 22, 2012 | 2 CommentsOn May 11th, a joint DEA-Honduran anti-narcotics unit based at Forward Operating Base Mocoron launched an early morning operation against alleged drug smugglers in the Miskito Coast region. In the pre-dawn darkness, helicopter gunners and soldiers on the ground reportedly fired upon a boat on the banks of the Patuca... -
Spotlight on Bolivia: The “Coca Diplomacy” of Evo Morales
By Alexander Frye, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on April 25, 2012 | 10 CommentsAt last month’s meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Bolivian President Evo Morales made headlines by dramatically brandishing a coca leaf he had apparently smuggled into the Austrian city between the pages of a book. The coca leaf, which is the unrefined source of cocaine...