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Back to Business as Usual as Peru Loses Progressive Drug Czar	Despite promising signs that Peru’s new president was ready to take a fresh approach to drug policy, focused on attacking traffickers and not coca f...
Coca or death?	Following Bolivia's 2002 parliamentary elections, the success of the political party headed by cocalero leader Evo Morales, rekindled debate rega...
Cocaine's becoming king in Peru	For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That ha...
Drug Laws and Prisons in Peru	Peru is a major world producer of coca leaf and its derivatives. Since the year 2000, successive Peruvian administrations have followed a drug policy ...
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,...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007	This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf	Read here the full text of the controversial statements on coca leaf included in this year's Annual Report of the INCB. Some highlights: "...
Latin America's fatal prison problem	Prison riots in Venezuela. Jailbreaks in Mexico. Prison fires in Honduras. Latin America is displaying violent cases of the ails of its prison system...
Peru	Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Peru Trend In Peru, the traditional use of the coca leaf is an ancestral practice which has never b...
Peru replaces drug czar who de-emphasized coca plant eradication, saying it hurt poor growers	Peru’s government on Tuesday replaced its drug czar, whose refusal to endorse an all-out coca crop eradication effort put him at odds with the Cabin...
Peru’s New Drug Chief: Country “Let Down Its Guard” in Eradication	The outspoken Ricardo Soberon was head of Devidafor about five months and was in favor of a stronger intervention in drug policies by his institutio...
Prison Inc.? An Illusionary Response	In the last few years, many Latin American countries face a dilemma – imported from Western countries – of conceding some if not all of its penitentia...
Sex and drugs and private cells	A deadly riot in Mexico and an inferno in Honduras have turned the searchlight on conditions in Latin America's overcrowded and anarchic prison...
The Case of Peru	In Peru, the law on drugs does not punish drug use or drug possession for personal use by imprisonment. Nonetheless, as the Peru chapter of the study ...
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