What follows is a policy paper about the drug control policies carried by Latin American countries during the last … production of illicit substances in order to allow an evaluation of the magnitude of the drug industry in the region. Part three …

construction of reliable indicators is one of the preconditions for a correct and concerted assessment of drug supply. The lack of … reliable data on drug provision derives, on the one side, from the objective difficulties encountered in assessing the … quantitative elements of drug production and drug trafficking due to its illegal nature, and, on the other side, from the lack of a …

strategy to counter drug trafficking was introduced, based on several institutional strengthening programs divided on four …

asymmetries. Drawing on illustrations primarily from drug trafficking (by far the most studied and documented case), we then …