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According to the Drug Policy Alliance, the methods used so far were destined to fail. The explanation of the Drug Policy Alliance supporting a statement regarding the uselessness of the eradication method is relaying on the so called "balloon effect." That means that the extermination of crops destined for the production of coca and heroin in one region will determine the increase of production in another region in Latin America. Unfortunately, the numbers are in favor of this opinion. But they are not taking into account that the fight on the seizure of drugs first inside Latin American Countries has increased and became more effective over the last years and the fact that more Latin American governments are working toward joining their efforts to those of the U.S. And some European Countries that lately became implicated in the war on drugs. In Argentina, the efforts of the U.S. governments Policy are focused lately on the reduction of drugs entering the country over the Bolivian border. U.S. efforts to fight drugs are aimed in Bolivia to reduce the coca production and offer alternatives for the economic development of the social classes dependable on the production or processing of coca. Bolivia needs a better law enforcement system, reduction of the use of narcotics by its own population and more effective means of educating the people and making tem aware of the dangers of using narcotics. Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement of the Department of State is closely cooperating with the Bolivian officials toward achieving the afore mentioned goals. The cooperation between Brazil and the United States is aimed mainly toward the fight against the trafficking networks and the education of the population on subjects related to the effects of drug consumption. Paraguay is another major drug transit...
And Paraguay destined to help the latter succeed in seizing and annihilating the trafficking networks. The cooperation with other countries that are serve as important transit regions, like Venezuela, is still difficult to achieve mainly because of the lack of action of the respective governments, but the U.S. INL of the State Department was optimistic on the matter of improving this situation.
The United States efforts against drug production and trafficking networks in the Latin American Countries are still encountering enormous and numerous problems and are highly dependent on the close cooperation of the respective governments and international institutions. The U.S. government is on the way to producing more and more awareness of the threats drugs represent in the world of globalization at the official level of most of the countries affected by the drug production, trafficking and consumption.
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Released by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
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US Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Pastor, R.A. & Long, T. (2010). The Cold War and its Aftermath in the Americas: The Search for a Synthetic Interpretation of U.S. Policy. Latin American Research Review, 45(3), 261-273. Pastor and Long conducted a search of synthetic interpretation of the United States foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the Cold War through examining existing literature of U.S.
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