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Democracias bajo fuego illustrates that the current repressive drug policies create more damage than that they produce solutions in Latin America.
One of the most interesting - and complete - investigations on drugs and power in Latin America to be found to date El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia.
Democracias bajo fuego (Democracies under Fire) illustrates that the current repressive drug policies create more damage than that they produce solutions in Latin America.
The collateral damage, generated by both drug trafficking as well as the 'war on drugs', are mayor impediments for the process of democratisation on the continent.
This 370-page study aproaches the problem from two sides: on the one hand the destabilizing effect of an illicit economy; and on the other the re-militarization caused by the escalating drug war.
Introduction by Martin Jelsma and Theo Roncken