Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist, was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002. He currently chairs the Global Commission

A search on Flickr images for Uruguayan President José Mujica renders the headshots of a pop cultural icon: Aylín Mújica, Cuban

Cocaleros in Cochabamba, Bolivia at a protest to reform the UN Single Convention (Andean Information Network) To read this article

Rosa Julia Leyva Martínez is a Mexican woman from a poor rural community in the southern state of Guerrero, a

The extent to which the ongoing drug-control reforms across the Americas are pushing the boundaries of the global legal framework

Marchers with the banner "Cultivate Your Rights" in May 2012, Montevideo, Uruguay (Carolina Poggi) In December 2013, about a year

U.S. journalist David Bacon’s new book on immigration begins with stench. Since the 1990s the Granjas Carroll de México company

Graffiti reads "More drugs for the people because reality is killing us," in Quito, Ecuador. (Matt Pounsett / Creative Commons)

In late May 2012, an estimated 20,000 Mexicans took to the streets of Mexico City, converging on the offices of

  Bruno is former drug dealer and member of the Comando Vermelho who now lives in a favela a few

An inmate paints a mural inside the Santa Marta Acatitla Female Prison in Mexico City (Mujeres en Espiral) “Listen, if

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist, was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002. He currently chairs the Global Commission