Colombia & Drugs.

Briefs:

Militarization mil·i·ta·rize
tr.v. mil·i·ta·rized, mil·i·ta·riz·ing, mil·i·ta·riz·es
1. To equip or train for war.

2. To imbue with militarism.

3. To adopt for use by or in the military. of the U.S. Drug Control Program, by Gina Amatangelo (May 2001)

U.S. Drug Policy: Failure at Home, by Eric Sterling (May 2001)

"Free Trade" and Medicines in the Americas, by Robert Weissman (April 2001)

Free Trade Area of the Americas The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) (Spanish: Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA), French: Zone de libre-échange des Amériques (ZLÉA), Portuguese: Área de Livre Comércio das Américas , by Karen Hansen-Kuhn (April 2001)

Coca Eradication Coca eradication is a controversial strategy strongly promoted by the United States government as part of its "War on Drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the , by Phillip Coffin (March 2001)

Drug Certification, by Bill Spencer with Gina Amatangelo (March 2001)

Ugly American

For other uses of the term, see Ugly American (disambiguation).

Ugly American is an epithet used to refer to perceptions of arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless behaviors of Americans abroad. Problem in Colombia, by Frida Berrigan (Feb. 2001)

Rules of the Game, by Winifred Tate (Feb. 2001)

Bush's Foreign Policy in Latin America: Colombia and U.S. Drug Policy, By Coletta Youngers (Jan. 2001)

Bolivia: Eradicating Democracy, by George Ann Potter and Linda Farthing (Oct. 2000)

Into the Quagmire: Colombia and the War on Drugs, by Coletta Youngers (May 2000)

Colombia in Crisis, by Carlos Salinas Salinas, city, United States
Salinas (səlē`nəs), city (1990 pop. 108,777), seat of Monterey co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. It is the shipping and processing center of a fertile valley famous for its grain and lettuce. (March 2000)

Colombia's Role in International Drug Industry, by Winifred Tate (Nov. 1999)

Colombia, by Carlos Salinas (Nov. 1997)

Citizen Agendas:

Drug Policy Reform (March 2001)

Halting U.S. Military Involvement in Colombia (March 2001)

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