Drug Economies of the Americas

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHING THE DRUG INDUSTRY The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/nrcrpt/ The INCSR, produced annually by

Over the past two decades, the chief survival strategy for many rural Mexican communities—particularly in the south—has been to send

Peru and Bolivia both produce some refined cocaine for sale in international markets, but their main role in the international

Cuernavaca, Saturday, June 13, 1998: At 1:55 in the afternoon I park my pickup truck on Avenida Central, across the

Reports of massacres in the Mexican countryside have become alarmingly common in recent years, but a recent incident was among

Central America and the island nations of the Caribbean primarily play a support role in the international drug industry, serving

The United States is best known as the world’s largest market for drugs and, of course, as the main promoter,

Colombia’s drug industry is the most complete and diversified in the world: Colombia is the world’s only important producer of

When armed robbers assaulted her store in Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo neighborhood and cleaned out her entire inventory of eyeglasses

Diverse and complex factors underlie Latin America’s economic backwardness, but one of the most important is the persistence of corruption,

When the movie Traffic burst onto U.S. movie screens in December 2000, the pundits were unanimous: By confronting a difficult

During his campaign for the presidency of Colombia in March 2002, then-candidate Alvaro Uribe announced that he supported the U.S.-backed,