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Drug Law Reform in Ecuador In Ecuador, the Correa government’s comprehensive justice sector reform project includes significant changes in drug legislation. The country has one ...
Drug Laws and Prison in Ecuador Ecuador has one of the harshest drug laws in the hemisphere. A non-violent drug offender can receive the same sentence, sometimes even...
Drug Laws and Prisons in Ecuador Ecuador was never a significant center of production or traffic of illicit drugs; nor has it ever experienced the social convulsions that can result f...
Drug Policy in the Andes Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs,...
Ecuador Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Ecuador. Trend In 2008, the Constitutional Assembly of Ecuador approved an amnesty for ‘drug mules’...
Ecuador to Debate Decriminalization Proposed changes to Ecuador's penal code would decriminalize possession of drugs for personal use, including up to 10 grams of marijuana and ha...
Pardon for Mules in Ecuador At the end of 2008, about 1,500 persons were released who were in Ecuadorian prisons sentenced for drug trafficking. The measure, known as “pardon for...
The Case of Ecuador Ecuador has one of the most severe and unfair drug laws of all the countries included in Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America, a c...
The Real Meaning of Thousands Arrested on Drug Charges On September 29, 2010 the Associated Press (AP) published an article entitled Ecuador: Almost 3,000 Detained for Narco-Trafficking in Eight Months. Th...
US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs' After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, con...

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Abused and Afraid in Ciudad Juarez

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Residents in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are caught between the drug-related violence and the human rights violations committed by the security forces.

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