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Transnational Institute: The Statistics Bazaar - Statistics are another front of combat in the war on drugs in Colombia, 3 March 2010

 

Transnational Institute: The Statistics Bazaar - Statistics are another front of combat in the war on drugs in Colombia, 3 March 2010

The manipulation of data and diagnoses that has taken place in Colombia in order to consolidate the “success of the strategy” is now catching on in countries such as Mexico who look to Colombia as an exemplary country.

This report looks at what is happening to coca and cocaine statistics in Colombia with the aim of raising a few questions on what the authorities present as the success of drug control in Colombia.

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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.