Inter-American Anti-Narcotics Efforts to Increase

On April 23, 1993, in Bariloche, Argentina, in a head-on attack on drug trafficking structures, 26 American countries agreed to the final declaration of the 11th International Conference on the Control of Dangerous Drugs that was held from April 20-23. The countries pledged to redouble their efforts to “break up” the Colombian drug trafficking organizations’ economic power, including the Cali and Medillin cartels, which are described as the world’s leading drug organizations…[more]