Ottawa has a problem with crack cocaine.
Its tentacles are everywhere. In the ByWard Market, obviously, but also in the middle-class enclaves of Orléans and Barrhaven and Kanata.
Police officers, drug counsellors, community groups, politicians, outreach workers, judges and an army of others in the fight know that realistically it will never [...]
The brazilian government plans to invest $ 215 million dollars on campaigns, treatment and suppression of trafficking. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed on Thursday (20) a decree establishing the Comprehensive Plan to Combat Crack. In the event that signed the decree, Lula said he was especially concerned with the scope of the drug that, [...]
The White House finally announced its long-awaited drug control strategy yesterday, after postponing the announcement several times.
The strategy calls, among other things, for allocating more federal resources to drug prevention and treatment, and alternatives to incarceration. READ MORE HERE
The Organization of American States OAS (CICAD) and the United Nations UNODC reported on the subject at the Fifty-third Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria. This new study on drug abuse among youth in South America showed that marihuana is the most frequently used illegal drug among the population sample used.
On average, [...]
Last weekend, a french-spanish filmmaker whose documentary about the violent street gang of the Maras in El Salvador provoked controversy earlier this year has been found shot in the head.
The body of Christian Poveda, 52, was discovered in a car in Tonacatepeque, a poor rural area 10 miles outside the capital San Salvador. Police say [...]
2010 Jan 31 | Posted in
Border and Regional Conflicts,
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN,
CRIME,
Corruption, Asset Recovery & Transparency,
Counter Narcotics,
Criminal Investigation,
DRUGS,
Drug Cartels,
Hemispheric Security,
Illegal Drugs Trafficking,
Kidnapping For Ransom,
Mara Salvatrucha & other Gangs,
Migration Smuggling,
Money Laundering,
Mutual Legal Assistance,
Prison System,
STRATEGIC SECURITY,
Security Issues,
Sexual Explotation,
Slavery,
Transnational Organized Crime TOC,
Treatment Drug Addicts,
US,
Wanted TOC Criminals,
Weapons Trafficking |
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