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Drugs and Democracy
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Ricardo Vargas

Director of Acción Andina Colombia

Ricardo Vargas Meza is a Colombian sociologist and author of several books, reports and articles on illicit cultivation of drug crops, alternative development and their relation with the internal conflict in Colombia.

Ricardo was previously a researcher at the Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular (CINEP) in Bogota, where he coordinated the Drugs and Violence project. He frequently writes for publications in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. He earned his Master degree in Social Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional in Colombia.

Illicit coca production in Colombia; Drugs and Conflict; Alternative Development; Fumigation and Biological warfare against drugs; War on drugs in the Andes

Spanish

Recent content by Ricardo Vargas

The Statistics Bazaar (5 Mar 2010)

The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

The security approach to the drugs problem (21 Dec 2009)

The drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels. Moreover, its relationship to the armed conflict has had serious consequences for the socio-economic conditions of peasant and indigenous communities affected by the production of raw materials used to produce cocaine.

Political Challenges Posed by the Failure of Prohibition (1 May 2006)

After a slight dip in coca production during 2003 and 2004, the Andean region has returned to the historical average of 200,000 hectares of coca crops.

Drogas, conflicto armado y desarrollo alternativo (17 Nov 2005)
Colombia: A Crusade in Tatters (17 Nov 2005)
"Gran parte del narcotráfico va por el pacífico" (17 Nov 2005)
Anti-drug Policies in Colombia: 25 Years of Failure (17 Nov 2005)
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Illicit Drug Trade (17 Nov 2005)
Fumigaciones yacciones antidrogas en la fuente (17 Nov 2005)
Ricardo Vargas (17 Nov 2005)
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