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    Drug Law Reform in Peru

    Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Peru.

    Drug Law Reform in Latin America
    Drugs and Democracy

    An interactive guide on the status of drug law reform throughout Latin America.

    Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
    Tom Blickman

    Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.

    Get real about coca: debunking the myths surrounding the ‘sacred’ leaf

    The Coca Myths report destroys a wide range of myths which to this day surround the coca leaf, illegal under the current international law.

    Blood at the Blockade: Peru's Indigenous Uprising
    TNI
     Gerardo Rénique

    On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil's Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears. In the nearby towns of Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica, and Utcubamba, shots...

    President Evo Morales to play football game during EU-LAC Summit
    TNI
    The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on Justice, Solidarity and Peace

    In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began today in...

    Huancayo: From resistance to public-public partnership
    Philipp Terhorst
    The Andean city of Huancayo has shown that a strong local movement of citizens and workers can expand the struggle against privatisation into reclaiming public water services.

     

    Interview with Luis Padron about the public-public partnership for improving water supply in Huancayo, Peru
    Water Justice

    The ground-breaking new Public-Public Partnership (PUP) between the
    Argentinean public water utility Aguas Bonaerenses S.A. (ABSA) and
    SEDAM, the provincial water utility of Huancayo (Peru) is an important
    example of the growing trend of not-for-profit cooperation between...

    Sending the wrong message
    Drugs and Democracy

    The 2006 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) report emitted a clear signal to the governments of Bolivia, Peru and Argentina that growing and using coca leaf is in conflict with international treaties, particularly the 1961 Single Convention. The INCB, rather than making harsh...

    The Drug’s Legal Nightmare
    TNI
     Ricardo Soberón
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