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Security & Strategic Review - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Debate on drug policy is left for later
The central purpose of the 43rd General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS), held on 4-6 June in Antigua, Guatemala, was to start the debate on a new approach to the ‘drug problem’, for which the OAS itself had prepared a report, complete with a set of scenarios [SSR-13-05]. The best illustration of the outcome was that many participants celebrated that they had agreed to go on discussing how to get around to the debate.
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- BRAZIL: Rio alarmed with ‘migration’ of crime from favelas
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- HONDURAS: Investigations directorate to be rebuilt from scratch
- EL SALVADOR: Reacting to the gaps in the gang truce
- POINTERS
- Debate on drug policy is left for later