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SOUTH AMERICA
COLOMBIA
THE WAR ON DRUGS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington has given Colombia two and a half billion dollars during the past four years, mainly for purchase of anti-drug enforcement hardware. Up to now, Congress has turned a blind eye on human rights abuses, but if that should change, the bilateral collaboration might be diminished.
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The declarations of Vice Premier Gianfranco Fini [of the far-Right Alleanza Nazionale -- translator's note] during a meeting of the Catholic Action group, and those of Under-secretary Alfredo Mantovano during an Alleanza Nazionale festival, both airing their support of newly proposed drug law reforms, have raised the following comments:
- Daniele Capezzone, Radicali Italiani secretary: With the new law, imprisonment would be certain for possession of a mere six or seven joints of cannabis. I'm addressing my appeal to the intelligence of the police sniffer dogs, which is clearly superior to that of our prohibitionist mentors both on the right and on the left.
- Marco Cappato, secretary of the Luca Concioni Association: We must see to it that the drug question won't end up in the same quagmire as in-vitro fertilisation.
- Alessandro Caforio, president of www.antiproibizionisti.it: Fini has the right to speak, but let him remember that his words are like stones that he is hurling at the citizens and the voters, even against his own supporters.
- Giulio Manfredi, Radicali Italiani National committee: This is a proposal waved around solely for propaganda purposes. There'' be opposition, just like at the time of the referendum of 1993.NEWS FROM THE WORLD :��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������_
3670���� 08/09/2004
NORTH AMERICA (California)
POLITICS
DRUGPOLICY.ORG
Drug Policy Alliance has tabled three proposed laws for Governor Schwarzenegger's consideration: for the curtailment of abuse of anti-drug tests, for the sale of sterile syringes without doctor's prescription, and for restoring several social welfare benefits to those convicted of drug crimes.3676���� 03/09/2004
EUROPE
SWITZERLAND
STATISTICS
NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG
The figures for 2002 on out-patient emergency services for addicts show that risky behaviour is returning among heroin users. Heroin intake by injection is on the increase, now at 44%� against the previous reading of 36%, as is needle-sharing, now at 6.6%� against 3.3%.3672���� 07/09/2004
NORTH AMERICA
U.S.A. (Minnesota)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pupils of Milwaukee high schools smoke more cannabis than their peers elsewhere in the nation: thus a study by the Federal Centre for the Control and Prevention of Disease. Twenty-nine per cent admit to using the stuff now, compared to twenty-two per cent nationwinde, and fifty-two per cent has done so in the past, compared to forty per cent nationwide.3678���� 03/09/2004
EUROPEAN UNION
ITALY (Milan)
DRUG TRAFFIC
ANSA
In the course of August of this year, 98.56 kg of cocaine were confiscated at Malpensa airport. According to the on-scene authorities, 'most desperate' ways of getting past customs were employed.3671���� 07/09/2004
ASIA
INDIA
DRUG TRAFFIC
THE TIMES OF INDIA
The authorities worry over the one hundred per cent upsurge of heroin confiscations along the Northern Frontier in the past twelve months. India is becoming part of a new 'drug road' betweeen the 'Golden Half Moon' and Europe.3675���� 02/09/2004
SOUTH AMERICA
COLOMBIA
THE WAR ON DRUGS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington has given Colombia two and a half billion dollars during the past four years, mainly for purchase of anti-drug enforcement hardware. Up to now, Congress has turned a blind eye on human rights abuses, but if that should change, the bilateral collaboration might be diminished.3677���� 05/09/2004
SOUTH AMERICA
THE WAR ON DRUGS
REUTERS
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru have signed an accord for drug traffic control along their common borders. The aim also to lessen corruption and poverty in those regions. Periodic meetings, co-ordinated law enforcement and exchange of information are foreseen.3674���� 06/09/2004
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN
THE WAR ON DRUGS
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
International supervisors are teaching to a select group of Afghan judges, magistrates and police officers how to deal with drug cases. The aim is to form a 'small clean oasis' in the prevailing justice system which, after twenty-five years of uninterrupted war and religious violence, is corrupt beyond all imagination.3673���� 07/09/2004
SOUTH AMERICA
VENEZUELA
THE WAR ON DRUGS
LA PRENSA
Vice President Jos� Vicente Rangel has accused the United States of 'lowering its guard in the war against drugs', in spite of the fact that 'drugs are the cause of enormous criminal activity in Venezuela'.3679���� 07/09/2004
ASIA
PHILIPPINES
THE WAR ON DRUGS
ABC AUSTRALIA
U.S. ambassador Francis Riccierdone has announced that during the next few months, American advisors will assist the equipping and training of selected local anti-drug forces. This, he added, will be 'a string signal' to the forces of evil.
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