corruption

Coruption and the drug trade in Ghana

Ghana has for quite some time been part of the drug trade with corruption helping drug smugglers not get caught. West Africa has become a transit point for South American drugs destined for Europe, every year according to the UN at least 50 tonnes of cocaine go through Western African countries. The UN says that Ghana along with Guinea-Bissau is the major hubs of cocaine smuggling within the region.

Russian HIV activist has been planted drugs in Kaliningrad airport

It finally happened – the thing I have been afraid the most of all since I got involved in a legal battle against Russia. As you may remember in February, 2011 I sent a request to the Ministry of Health on a possibility to provide me with the opioid substitution treatment (OST). They refused, as the OST with methadone is prohibited by Russian law. Then I sued them in my district court with references to Constitution of the Russian Federation and International Law.

State of Apathy

Eric Perez died in custody the night of his arrest, after six-and-a-half hours of vomiting with guards taking no action. The teenager, from West Palm Beach, Florida, was on probation and stopped for riding his bike without lights and arrested for having less than a gram of marijuana on him. The story was hardly picked up, and as a Florida resident, I can say that the majority of Floridians have not heard it. Many realize Florida has a serious problem staying out of the news, especially with bizarre cases.

Corruption and drugs

Today the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) published its annual report for 2010. Organisation established in 1961 through the merger of Permanent Central Board and the Supervisory Body, is dedicated by the Single Convention to oversee the compliance of parties with the agreement. Basically, the role of INCB can be subtracted to three main functions. First, to limit the cultivation, manufacture and use of drugs to the amount required for medical purposes. Second, ensure availability of drugs for medical use.

Politicians and the drugs trade

Recent months have seen a wave of politicians arrested throughout the world with varying degrees of involvement in the global drugs trade. Mario Villaneuva, the former mayor of Cancun, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Mexico has been extradited to the United states by the DEA for allegedly pocketing millions of dollars in bribes in order to help one of the notorious Mexican drug cartels ship 200 tons of cocaine across the border.

Kick and Drugs in Georgia

A car is stopped by police officer from Special Operative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (SOD) ordering to get the arrested persons out of the car. On the footage can been seen two arrestees who are turned towards the road and got the kick hind.

All the above mentioned details are screened by a SOD officer. Short after that the footage is posted on YouTube.com. This is the very officer whose voice is heard from the footage who after kicking tells the arrestees that they are free to go.

Death squads act with impunity in Mexico

After the brutal massacre of 16 youngsters between the age of 15 and 20 last week in Ciudad Juarez, residents of the most heavily militarised city in Mexico are asking the authorities how this could happen. One distraught citizen said in a television interview “We don’t have anyone to defend us or look after us, we pay taxes for all the police and military to come to the city but they are only decoration.” As of march 2009 there were 7500 federal police and soldiers in Juarez, the city with the highest murder rate in the world.

The new drug laws in Mexico show advances but also pose risks

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The law against small time trafficking (narcomenudeo) represents certain advances but also important risks for drug policy in Mexico.

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