Los costos constitucionales de la guerra contra las drogas

dos estudios de caso de las transformaciones de las comunidades políticas de las Américas

Abstract

The Constitutional Costs of the War on Drugs: Two Case Studies on the Transformation of the Political Communities in the Americas

This paper seeks to provide an analytic framework for tackling a phenomenon that has gone virtually unnoticed so far: the constitutional costs of the war on drugs. In the Americas, policies adopted and implemented to suppress illicit drug markets have required or justified a battery of significant legal reforms and changes in institutional designs and practices. We analyze these settings through the lenses of a category we have chosen to call “constitutional costs” and develop, as a first step in a potentially wider assessment, an analysis of the Colombian and Mexican cases.