- 2010 saw 15,273 deaths in Mexico, according to new estimates put out by the Mexican government this week. Judging by recent violence this week, it doesn't look as though this year will be faring much better, with a new report by the Citizen Council for Public Security and Justice claiming that almost one-quarter of the world's most dangerous cities are now in Mexico.
- Over the ...
- The trial of suspected anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles began in El Paso, Texas this week. While Posada Carriles has been linked to bombings in Havana and the downing of an airliner in the 1970s, he is being charged with "perjury, obstruction of federal proceedings and making false statements during a naturalization hearing" -- not terrorism. However, this trial ...
Though cocaine is illegal, some South American indigenous groups have chewed coca leaves for centuries. This traditional use violates the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Bolivia is trying to amend this international convention, but the United States is blocking its efforts. Adam talks with WOLA's Coletta Youngers about what is happening.
Incidentally, the website of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz no longer recommends coca tea as an altitude-sickness remedy, as Adam mentions in the podcast. The page where this recommendation appeared can still be viewed at the...
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This post was guest-authored by George Withers, a senior fellow for Regional Security Policy at...
Colombia's San José de Apartadó Peace Community on Vimeo.
Here is video of a conversation with Jesús Emilio Tuberquia, a leader of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in northwestern Colombia, recorded during his October 2010 visit to Washington.
Founded in 1997, the Peace Community was established in the conflictive Urabá region as a non-violent effort to exclude all armed actors -- the...
Adam looks at FARC activity in Colombia, drug-related violence in Mexico, and the question of Venezuela and the OAS Democratic Charter.
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