...Re-Covering the War on Drugs ...

... NAFTA War on Drugs drug economy drug cartels scalping beheading narcos jihadists Osama Bin Laden Javier Sicilia ...

... Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime corruption war on drugs ...

.... Moreover, the tripling of trade and the quadrupling of foreign direct investment in both directions makes it much easier for cartels to move their product and launder money. But it is the escalation of the war on drugs that led to the increase in violence along the border. Once again the United States...

..., in this case the Comando Vermelho, respond to the situation. The chapter also discusses the nature of the Brazilian prison system in general, and the recent increase in the size of the prisoner population due to the country’s “war on drugs.” Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime...

... In the U.S. War on Drugs in the Andes, one of the stated aims was to eliminate the production of raw material for cocaine, although in Bolivia the traditional cultivation and consumption of coca leaf was so well established that it would be impossible to eradicate the crop completely. The 1988...

... In recent decades, cocaine traffcking and the U.S.-promoted War on Drugs in the Andes have stigmatized the coca leaf in public awareness. But in the hilly, subtropical Yungas region of La Paz, the cultivation of coca is an age-old activity with deep cultural roots. The ethnographic work...

... to the dead, who are converted from foul-smelling corpses into beneficial ancestors, like the sacred mummified bodies of preconquest Andean tradition. In the U.S. War on Drugs in the Andes, one of the stated aims was to eliminate the production of raw material for cocaine, although in Bolivia...

... protocols on the one hand, and the need to recruit samples and data from China and other Asian sites on the other. The chapter then describes the cataloging of “Asian” diseases in the light of the high rate of often fatal maladies that take different forms in Asian populations. The focus on Asian types...

...While at War ...

... international drug regulations applied to the coca leaf. In 1937, after the disastrous Chaco War, which was ostensibly fought over oil reserves near the border with Paraguay, Bolivia expropriated the holdings of the Standard Oil Company and formed its own state oil firm, ypfb . However, national control...