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Javier Sagredo

Founder and director of D2 INNO-LAB, the Global Laboratory for Innovation in Drug Policy and Development. Research associate at the Center for Research in Global Governance (CIGG) of the University of Salamanca (Spain). He was director of the EU-Latin America and Caribbean drug policy cooperation program (COPOLAD III).

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The everyday architecture of violence: When drug policies generate more insecurity

In Latin America, most drug-related insecurity is caused not by drug use itself, but by policies that persist in combating it through prohibition and punishment.

Democracies Under Siege: The Dangerous Return of the Drug Wars

The return of anti-drug policies based on repression threatens to exacerbate violence, strengthen organized crime, and weaken Latin American democracies.