Mike's Bogota Blog

Erradicating coca leaf bushes. But they don't stay gone.  The numbers are in, and once again it looks like the billions of dolla...

Probably not. But nevertheless it's impressive that the great majority of the opinionators included in their recent Room for Debate...

Radical thinker? Guatemalan Pres. Otto Perez Molina and his wife.  Guatemala's President Otto Pérez Molina has formally propos...

Smoking on a streetcorner: soon to be banned in Colombia? Colombian legislators have presented a new proposed drug policy law - and...

Ted and the lights of downtown Bogotá. To get a perspective on the drug trade, I talked to a Colombian acquaintance who spent  nearly a ...

Does more erradication really mean less drugs? Thanks to aggressive erradication, Colombia now has less coca leaf acreage than any year s...

Cesar Gaviria Colombian ex-President Cesar Gaviria has been carrying on something of a speaking campaign against drug prohibition . Th...

As evil as cocaine and heroin? In their indefatigable battle against cocaine,  Colombia and the United States are standing together agai...

Not a Colombian issue, anymore? Tardily, I ran across this April 2010 Wall Street Journal article reporting that the illegal drug trade ...