IPS’ Drug Policy Project joins Give Us Names for the DC public premier of thier compelling new film, Leaving La Floresta and you’re invited. Leaving La Floresta is a documentary that chronicles the forced displacement of one Colombian family.
Without any tariffs padding the price of our exports, cheap U.S. grain would flood Colombia.
Forty years after the war on drugs began the fallout from bad policy has had dire consequences both home and abroad.
President Obama is trying to sell free trade agreements as win-win deals. The problem is that most people will only win dubious prizes.
President Obama is reversing his earlier commitment to a new kind of trade relationship with the world by pushing three ill-conceived FTAs.
The international war on drugs isn’t stopping drug use or trafficking — but it is ruining lives. Drug policy expert Sanho Tree on what we can do differently.
The U.S.-Colombia free trade pact would reinforce a system that leaves farmers and consumers at the mercy of volatile prices and markets.
How come your teeth are so long, Grandma?
There’s only one Colombian industry that can potentially employ workers who would lose their job in the wake of a free trade deal.
Scrapping tariffs can hurt poor farmers, and a deal with Colombia might boost coca production.
Since the 1960s, the US has squandered about trillion dollars on a failed drug war. Internationally, much of our “war” has taken place in Latin America where eradication planes have defoliated millions of acres in Colombia, US-trained police have filled prisons, and prohibition has fueled murderous gang wars. To foster a greater understanding of this issue Witness for Peace is hosting a speaking tour of Sanho Tree, IPS fellow and Director of the Institute’s Drug Policy project through Eugene, Portland, Corvallis, Seattle, and Olympia.
Rewarding body count, during wartime or not, is a recipe for mass murder.
A tale of two helicopters.
In our globalized financial system, chaos in one part of the world can be devastating for businesses and workers elsewhere.
Despite a legal setback, the State Department says that existing agreements permit the United States to continue its military presence in Colombia.