Latin American History

AlterNet: Drugs - Special coverage by AlterNet-- global coverage of this topic.

Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations - From the National Security Archive, declassified documents relating to the Noriega, Rosa, and drug trafficking.

Coverage of Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean - From the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, a pdf of a conference from September, 2010.

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - An index to available publications, many of them free online, including:

• Drug Policy Program
• Drug War Monitor: Collateral Damage: U.S. Drug Control in the Andes
• Drug War Monitor: Coca and Conflict in the Chapare
• Drug War Monitor: Mexico's Military in the War on Drugs
• Drug War Monitor: The Push for Zero Coca, Democratic Transition and Counternarcotics Policy in Peru
• System Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America

Professor Myrna Santiago has a chronology that she has created in regards to drugs and their global impact, but particularly in relation to Latin America.  Updated annually.

Drug Chronology