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Latin American Program in the News: Latin America tries for a kinder, gentler War on Drugs

Eric L. Olson

This article quotes comments by Eric L. Olson on the hemispheric drug policy reform.

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Perhaps especially in Central America, the corrupting effects of the drug trade have hobbled civic institutions that were already weak — the police, the judicial system — and now pose a direct threat to the viability of entire states.

“It’s very alarming,” says Eric Olson, associate director of the Latin America program at the Wilson Center in Washington. “I think everybody recognizes there are tremendous risks of state capture.”

In other words: government of the drug lords, by the drug lords, for the drug lords.

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Eric L. Olson

Eric L. Olson

Global Fellow;
Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle International Foundation
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more