Drugs and the peace process in Colombia: a moderate radical step
This expert analysis evaluates the May 16th 2014 agreement on illegal drugs reached between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels in the context of the peace process taking place in Havana. This third agreement between the parties is very significant in its content and scope. If it progresses satisfactorily it will be the beginning of a gradual end to the “war on drugs” in the country and will defuse one of the issues – the drug trade – that has most hindered the attainment of peace in Colombia.
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Juan Gabriel Tokatlian is an Argentine sociologist, with an MA and a PhD in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washingon, DC. Currently (since April 2012) Director of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been teaching and researching since 2009, he was formerly Professor at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, from 1999 to 2008. Between 1981 and 1998 he lived, taught and researched in Colombia, where he was Associate Professor (1995–1998) at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, and co-founder (1982) and Director (1987–1994) of the Centro de Estudios Internacionales (CEI) at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. He has published various books, essays and op-ed articles on the foreign policies of Argentina and Colombia, on U.S.–Latin American relations, on contemporary global politics, and on drug trafficking, organised crime and violence in the Americas.
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