Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

From 25 to 28 February 2012 Hans Bruning, Executive Director of NIMD, undertook a mission to Bolivia; one of the oldest of NIMD programme countries. While having visited various countries in Latin America in previous positions it was the first time he visited Bolivia's capital, La Paz.

The Fundación Boliviana para la Democracia Multipartidaria (fBDM) is NIMD's partner organisation in Bolivia.

This fact-finding and policy review paper is a comparitive analysis about the impacts of organized crime, and specifically drugs related crime, on the Latin American political systems. The focus of the study is on Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Bolivia. The countries analysed in this study have di