Drug Addiction and Drug Trade

Fentanyl Gets Cheaper, Venezuelans Get Bombed

December 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Drug Addiction and Drug Trade, Latin America, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Gloria Gullo, published on Popular Resistance, November 5, 2025 The U.S. war on drugs remains what it has long been. Not a public health strategy, not even a serious global interdiction campaign, but a political weapon aimed at adversaries. In October 2025, the United States cut a deal with China to reduce tariffs on imports tied to fentanyl —[…]

From Despair to Revolution: The Bronx’s Path to Defeating Addiction

October 31, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Drug Addiction and Drug Trade, The Drug War, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, October 18, 2024 The Bronx Anti-War Coalition hosted a film screening on Oct. 11 of the documentary “Dope is Death” as part of our guerrilla cinema series. The widely attended event featured a Q&A session with former Young Lord and acupuncturist Walter Bosque, where community members engaged in a lively discussion[…]

How The CIA Turned Afghanistan Into A Failed Narco-State

July 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Drug Addiction and Drug Trade

by Alan McLeod, published on Popular Resistance, June 27, 2021 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies. The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites. Afghanistan – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell[…]