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Salon.com December 5, 2000 Ana Arana |
Ground zero in the Colombian drug war The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict? |
Salon.com January 11, 2001 Michael Easterbrook |
What are we fighting for? Colombia's civil war puts children on the front lines... |
Reason June 2005 Toby Muse |
Legalize Now! War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war. |
Salon.com July 5, 2000 Ana Arana |
Fighting drugs with choppers and poison Even advocates of U.S. military aid think the anti-narcotics package will only unravel the peace with Colombian guerrillas. |
Wired November 2004 Joshua Davis |
The Mystery of the Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die The war on Colombia's drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature - or a genetically modified secret weapon? |
Salon.com August 28, 2000 Ana Arana |
War on drugs 1, human rights 0 On the eve of President Clinton's trip to Colombia, critics say Washington cares more about its war on drugs than human rights. |
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 |
Marxists with a Better Business Plan The Colombian guerrilla army FARC is raking in billions by directly supplying cocaine to Mexican drug cartels. |
Salon.com August 30, 2000 Mark Schapiro |
Panama wants to stay out of the drug war Fearful of walking in the footsteps of Thailand during the Vietnam War, officials in Panama want to stay out of the U.S. offensive in Colombia. |
Outside December 2007 Joshua Hammer |
Coca Is It! Welcome to the new Bolivia, where former coca grower Evo Morales has made the leaf a symbol of his two-year-old government. Now everybody's growing it, everybody's chewing it, and the war on drugs has taken a very strange turn. |
Salon.com May 24, 2001 Douglas Cruickshank |
Death of a drug lord In "Killing Pablo," Mark Bowden details the 16-month game of cat and mouse that finally took down Medellin cartel founder Pablo Escobar -- with the help of the U.S. government... |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2007 |
Hail Colombia An outpouring of reactions - from gratitude to revulsion - to a recent story about Colombian lawmakers and businessmen had just been arrested for their alleged links to paramilitaries who murdered hundreds of citizens. |
Salon.com September 1, 2000 Arianna Huffington |
An eerie campaign silence Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face. |
Salon.com April 24, 2001 Jeff Stein |
Treachery over the Andes The downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru raises questions about whether we can trust our drug-war allies -- and the families of soldiers who died in Colombia say the answer is no... |
Outside September 2004 Ben Ryder Howe |
An Impossible Place To Be Panama's mythic Darien Gap--a 10,000-square-mile swath of jungle on the border of Central and South America--has swallowed explorers for centuries. Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land. |
Salon.com April 24, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Deadly mistake Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? |
Salon.com July 5, 2000 Jeff Stein |
The unquiet death of Jennifer Odom The Pentagon says the Army pilot's crash in Colombia last July was a "mishap," but her family believes she was shot down -- the first of many soldiers likely to die in our undeclared war. |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 |
Clash in Colombia Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who has been cracking down on a 39-year-old guerrilla insurgency and the country's cocaine producers since he came to power in August, 2002, is now clashing head-on with human-rights groups. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2013 |
Country Report: Colombia Colombia is focusing on bolstering the commercial sector. While this is good news for the pharmaceutical industry, there is still a strong debate about how healthcare in Colombia can be improved. |