...Joshua Kurlantzick Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 REPORTAGE Joshua Kurlantzick covers trade and international economics for U.S. News and World Report. He visited China’s Yunnan province in January 2002. China’s Drug Problem and Looming HIV Epidemic...

...Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Copyright © 2005 World Policy Institute 2005 REPORTAGE D aniel Kurtz-Phelan is an associate editor a t Foreign Affairs magazine. “Coca Is Everything Here” Hard Truths about Bolivia’s Drug War D aniel Kurtz-Phelan The Chapare, a swath...

.... Sharpe is professor of political science at Swarthmore College, and the coauthor o/Drug W ar Politics: The Price of Denial. Two Wars or One? Drugs, Guerrillas, and Colombia’s New Violencia William AÍ. LeoGrande and Kenneth E. Sharpe The recently approved $1.3 billion aid...

... 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 War on Drugs Philippines Rodrigo Duterte criminal justice BRITT VOGEL When the current president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was mayor of Davao City, he allegedly founded and funded a vigilante group that executed at least 1,000 people...

..., as did 87 of drug trafficking, crime, social violence, percent of Latin opinion leaders, making political ineptitude, persistent poverty, and him the most unpopular U.S. president deepening inequality pose a growing threat ever. Since 2000, negative opinion of the to Latin American democracy...

... blue pills. In 2000, there were some 77 pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico, and by 2004, 19 of the world’s top 25 prescription drugs were manufactured on the island. The U.S. commonwealth’s pharmaceutical industry, however, was built on shifting sands. Puerto Rico had been a tax haven...

... that had hounded him throughout the campaign—that in his confrontations with a communist insurgency, Islamist rebellion, and illegal drug epidemic, he had ordered the killing of hundreds of suspected criminals and even admitted to shooting some of them personally: “They say that my methods are unorthodox...

... that U.S. foreign policy will be focused, like it or not, on the new arc of crisis in Latin America— Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador (with Mexico waiting in the wings). It is Latin America and the Caribbean that most directly af­ fect Americans at home: immigration and drugs fuel the fears...

... this influx. I was keen to get a look at these progressive movements in a country whose justice system is better known for banning chewing gum, caning vandals, and executing drug traffickers. On the morning of my first meeting with Singaporean prison authorities, a question nags me: How did I get here...

..., sophisticated extortion rackets, small-scale drug dealing, and, in some cases, murder for hire. And while the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has touted a major reduction in crime since taking office in 2014, Choloma has not experienced this almost-miraculous turnaround. With a population...

..., narcotrafficking is accompanied by human trafficking, money laundering, the arms trade, child exploitation, and other forms of corruption. This trade increases violence, with Latin America’s poorest people caught in the middle as the state tries to eliminate drug rings or stop rivalries between cartels...

... treatment of even petty drug offenses. President Correa understands all of these faults firsthand. His father was arrested in the late 1960 s for smuggling a small amount of drugs into the United States and sentenced to five and a half years in an American prison. Left behind was a young boy, who would show...

... to import drug trade are also involved in the traffick­ weapons and ammunition, despite the redis­ ing of women between Central and South tribution of weapons from the Afghan con­ Asia and the Persian Gulf. flicts throughout the region. Russia, in a In developing countries, economic activ­ bid...

..., and intravenous drug users. Other vulnerable groups, like refugees, youth, women and girls, transsexuals, and prisoners, also stand to benefit from an effective response to the threat of HIV. With the political turmoil wrought by the Arab Spring, fighting the threat of HIV, or simply staying alive and healthy...

... as this one, is a muscle. Can tough money-laundering laws magic bullet. It is more like a blunt instru­ take down terrorists? They will probably ment and must be used in conjunction with help, in the same way that less stringent meticulous counterintelligence. That in­ laws have slowed the drug trade...

... experiments in sex, drugs, and communal living—attempts to deprogram from mainstream society—were falling apart in some quarters and retrenching in others. It was the decade in which the Irish Republican Army bombing campaign reached the British mainland, a period of intense social unrest, industrial action...

... Arteaga Botello of the Autonomous Uni­ sentment, and drug consumption, and few versity of the State of Mexico, and sociology stu­ have gone beyond a primary or secondary dent Adrian López Rivera came up with an in­ education. genious way to document the mechanisms of cor­ A large number of applicants...

..., Selig S.; "The Missiles of North Korea: How Real a Threat?” (XVII:3) of the Greek Civil War” (XVII: 1) Heilbrunn, Jacob; “A Disdain for the Past: Jorg Haider’s Austria” (XVIL1) Sharpe, Kenneth E., and William M. LeoGrande; “Two Wars or One? Drugs, Heilbrunn, Jacob...