U.S. faults Bolivia anti-drug efforts
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The Bush administration on Monday noted disturbing trends in Bolivia's cooperation with efforts to combat illicit drugs.
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The administration said legalizing imported prescription drugs would probably hurt the development of new drugs for Americans.
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The U.N. drug control watchdog is hindering efforts to fight the global AIDS pandemic and the agency should be independently reviewed, human rights groups and a former U.N. AIDS envoy said on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration plans to cut  U.S. counternarcotics funding for Peru because it does not  expect a program to shoot down suspected drug flights to resume  anytime soon, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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By Rene Villegas LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's radical Indian leaderEvo Morales, who has infuriated Washington with calls tolegalize coca farming, has come first in municipal electionsthat are seen as a springboard for a 2007 presidential vote.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Before embarking on a trip that   includes the United States, Bolivia's leftist leader Evo   Morales said on Monday he would like to meet President George   W. Bush to tell him "some truths about human rights."
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Myanmar and Venezuela have "failed demonstrably" to do enough to fight illegal drugs for a third straight year, the United States said on Monday, but waived sanctions on Caracas to maintain U.S. aid for democracy programs.
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The war on drugs is interfering with the US effort to destroy Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. US officials increasingly want to eradicate drugs as well as nurture Afghanistan&#39;s
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The U.S. Justice Department is  investigating whether CIA officials lied to Congress about the  Peru aerial drug interdiction program, which remains suspended  three years after an American missionary plane was mistakenly  shot down, several U.S. government sources said on Thursday.
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U.S.-directed seizures and disruptions of cocaine shipments from Latin America dropped sharply in 2007 from the year before, reflecting in part a shift in tactics by drug traffickers to avoid detection at sea, senior American officials disclosed Monday
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Venezuela accused U.S. anti-drug agents Friday of collaborating with traffickers and rejected Washington's allegations that rampant corruption has allowed illegal drug smuggling to thrive in the South American country.
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A bold attempt by U.S. drug agents to arrest a former Haitian presidential candidate signals a new offensive against those suspected of using this poor Caribbean country as a narcotics gateway to the United States.
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An American scholar said Friday that an official at the U.S. Embassy asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against U.S. policy.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon's government wants to decriminalize first-time possession of small amounts of drugs in a move likely to draw criticism from U.S. anti-narcotics officials.
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Bolivia's former president says Washington is refusing to clarify that he had nothing to do with the secret removal of anti-aircraft missiles to U.S. soil &#151; an incident that has him facing treason charges under Bolivia's new leftist government.
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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Myanmar and Venezuela have "failed demonstrably" to do enough to fight illegal drugs for a third straight year, said a U.S. report on Monday that waived sanctions on Caracas to maintain aid for democracy programs.