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The Inter-American Dialogue
released this report [
PDF] on improving journalism in Latin America and reforming the government’s relationship with the media.
In January 2008, the Inter-American Dialogue organized an intensive, full-day workshop to review a set of challenges facing the media in Latin America and the Caribbean and to begin to think about ways to enable the press to be a more positive force for democracy in the region. The conference was specifically concerned with four issues: government laws and regulations regarding the media, concentration of media ownership, indirect censorship, and the nexus of media responsibility and the quality of democracy.
boz Reports censorship, media
Last week, the Wilson Center
released a new report on a potential US-Mexico strategic partnership. Within, they make a number of recommendations for the new US administration in the areas of security, economic integration, migration and border issues.
boz Countries, Mexico, Reports Economics, illicit trafficking, Mexico, migration, Security, US Foreign Policy
The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, led by three former Latin American presidents, released a statement [
PDF] outlining their vision of the drug war and how they believe developed nations should go after the problem.
The commission makes five recommendations:
- Change the status of addicts from drug buyers in the illegal market to that of patients cared for in the public health system
- Evaluate from a public health standpoint and on the basis of the most advanced medical science the convenience of decriminalizing the possession of cannabis for personal use
- Reduce consumption through campaigns of information and prevention that can be understood and accepted by young people, who account for the largest contingent of users.
- Redirect repressive strategies to the unrelenting fight against organized crime
- Reframe the strategies of repression against the cultivation of illicit drugs
boz Reports, US Foreign Policy Brazil, Colombia, drugs, illicit trafficking, Mexico, US Foreign Policy
