IV Latin American Conference on Drug Policy 

December 5th and 6th, 2012. Bogotá, Colombia

 Huitaca Auditorium - Town Hall of the City of Bogotá.

 

Wednesday 5th December 

 

09.00 to 10.00 a.m.: Opening Ceremony

• Julián Quintero. Director ejecutivo de la Corporación Acción Técnica Social (ATS), Colombia.
• Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas. Deputy Minister of Criminal Policy and Restorative Justice. Ministry of Justice and Law of the Republic of Colombia.
• Gustavo Petro. Alcalde Mayor de Bogotá, Colombia.
• Alejandro Gaviria Uribe. Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Republic of Colombia.
• Graciela Touzé. President of Intercambios Civil Association, Argentina.

10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.: Panel: Drugs and socio-economic development

• Javier Gonzales Skaric. Technical Secretary at the Observatory of the declared illegal crops, Bolivia.
• Guillermo García Miranda. Head of the Alternative Development Program at the United Nations Office in Colombia.
• Eder Jair Sanchez Zambrano. President of the Putumayo National Association of Rural Users ANUC-PUTUMAYO, Colombia.
• Fabiola Piñacue Achicué. Founder and legal representative of Coca Nasa; Member of the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers, Colombia.

 Moderator: Tom Blickman. Researcher at TNI’s Drugs & Democracy Programme, Netherlands.

 

 12.00 to 02.00 p.m.: Interval

 

 02.00 to 03.45 p.m.: Panel: Drugs and Public Health

• Aldemar Parra Espitia. Area Coordinator of the Reduction on Consumption of Psychoactive Substances, Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Republic of Colombia.
• Hugo A. Cohen. sub-regional Advisor on Mental Health for South America (OPS/OMS)
• Marie Nougier. Head of research, publications and web site development of the International Consortium on Drug Policy (IDPC)
• Juan Carlos Celis. Director of “Procrear” Foundation, Colombia

Moderator: Roberto Tykanori. Mental Health Coordinator at Ministry of Health, Brazil.

 

03.45 to  04.15 p.m.: Interval

 

04.15 to 06.00 p.m.: Roundtable: Drugs and Human Rights

• Wagner Coutinho Alves. Member of the Latin American drug users (LANPUD); Secretary, of the Association of Social Studies of the use of Psychoactive Substances (ABESUP), Brasil.
• Pablo Abarca.  Consultant to the Gender, Rights, Cultural Diversity and Bioethics Area at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington (OPS/OMS)
• Oscar Parés Franquero. Contributor for the Prevention Team of the General Subdivision for Drug Dependency, Agència de Salut Pública de la Generalitat de Catalunya, España
• Daniel Wolfe. Director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society Foundations (IHRD/OSF)

 Moderator: Jorge Hernández Tinajero. President of the Group of Integral Approach to Drug Policy (CUPIhD), México

06.00 p.m.: Award Ceremony of Latin American Journalism on Drug

  

 

Thursday 6th December

  

09.00 to 10.30 a.m.: Panel: Drug Policies in Local Settings Panel

• Lumena Almeida Castro Furtado. Assistant Secretary for Health to the Municipio de Sao Bernardo do Campo. Coordinator for Care Policy in the Alcohol and Drug Network., Brasil.
• Iván Fornís Espinosa. Technician for the management of the Drug Analysis Service in Energy Control, Spain.
• Liz Evans. Executive Director of PHS Community Services Society. InSite  Vancouver, Canadá.
• Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo Martinez. Secretary of Health, Mayoralty of Bogotá, Colombia

Moderator: Inés Elvira Mejía Motta.  Drug Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Republic of Colombia.

  

10.30 to 11.00 a.m.: Interval

 

11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.: Roundtable: Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Drug Problems

• Mauricio Boraschi.  Deputy Minister of the Presidency in Security Affairs and National Drug Commissioner of Costa Rica. Chairman of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control (CICAD).
• John Walsh. Senior Associate for Drug Policy and the Andes, at the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA), United States of North America.
• Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll. Associate professor at the Universidad de los Andes Law School, Colombia.
• Pedro Vieira Abramovay. Professor of Law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro and Avaaz Campaign Director. He was secretary of legislative affairs at the Ministry of Justice and National Secretary of Justice of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
• Oscar Gómez da Trindade. Vice Minister of Education and Culture and permanent member of the National Drugs Council of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Moderator: Ricardo Soberón. Director at the Drug Research and Human Rights Center (CIDDH), Perú.

12.30 to 02.30 p.m.: Interval  

 

02.30 to 04.00 p.m.: Panel:  Drugs, Violence and Security

• Édgar Gutierrez Girón. Guatemala Ambassador on Special Mission for Drug Policy Reform; was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guatemala.
• Juan Diego Restrepo. Editor and Project Editor on the Semana.com and VerdadAbierta.com Sites, respectively, Colombia
• Alejandro Hope. Head of the MC2 “Less Crime, Less Punishment” Project, joint initiative between the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) and México Evalúa, in subject of Public Security, México
• Socorro Ramírez. Retired Professor from the Universidad Nacional in Colombia and Columnist for El Tiempo Newspaper.

Moderator: Coletta Youngers. Senior Fellow on Drug Policy, Human Rights and Political Development in the Andean Region, Drug Policy Reform in Latin America, (WOLA), United States of North America.

 

04:00  to 04.30 p.m.: Interval

 

04.30 to 06.00 p.m.: Panel: Drugs and Social Inclusion

• Tránsito Ruano. Director at the Training and Education Center “PASSOS”, El Salvador.
• Cesare Cattini. Director of the Social and Training Foundation “Arca de Noé”, Colombia.
• Javier Sagredo. Coordinator for SAVIA-Drugs Project. Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of  the Organization of the American States (CICAD/OAS).
• Susana Fergusson. Advisor on issues of community services organization, at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Colombia

Moderator: Carlos Roberto Sáenz Vargas. Councilman of Bogotá, Colombia

 06.00 p.m.: Closure of Conference

• Statements of the Satellite Meetings
• Julián Quintero. Executive Director of the Technical Social Action Corporation (ATS), Colombia
• Pablo Cymerman. Coordinator of the Organizing Committee.  Psychologist.  Responsible for Institutional Relations at Intercambios Civil Association.,  Argentina