03289nam 2200661Ia 450 991078082440332120230725041635.01-56976-560-X1-56976-559-6(CKB)2520000000008889(EBL)473794(OCoLC)592756109(SSID)ssj0000341612(PQKBManifestationID)11296950(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341612(PQKBWorkID)10395950(PQKB)11328978(MiAaPQ)EBC473794(Au-PeEL)EBL473794(CaPaEBR)ebr10360206(CaONFJC)MIL534950(EXLCZ)99252000000000888920090813d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics of cocaine[electronic resource] how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America /William L. MarcyChicago, IL Chicago Review Press20101 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-03699-2 1-55652-949-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction U.S. Drug Policy in the Northern Andes and Latin America; 1 The Growth of the Narcotics Industry in the Northern Andes, 1971-1980; 2 The Economic Role of Narcotics in Latin America, 1980-1987; 3 U.S. Narcotics Control Policies in the Northern Andes, 1980-1987; 4 Reagan, the Drug War, and the Narco-Terrorist Nexus; 5 Northern Andean Guerrillas, Drug Trafficking, and Cold War Politics; 6 The Militarization of the Drug War: Bush, Panama, and the Andean Strategy; 7 The Failure of the Andean Strategy8 Clinton: From the Andean Strategy to Plan ColombiaConclusion U.S. Drug Policy Comes Full Circle; Notes; IndexDrawing on declassified documents and painstaking research, this exploration of the economic drug trade of Central and South America fills in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem. Viewing the problem through the lens of United States policy, the author puts forth the theory that, through the conflation of the Cold War and the war on drugs, the United States helped establish and strengthen the drug trade as the area's economic base. This authoritative and timely polemic traces the counternarcCocaine industryLatin AmericaDrug controlLatin AmericaDrug controlUnited StatesOrganized crimeLatin AmericaLatin AmericaEconomic conditions20th centuryUnited StatesForeign relationsLatin AmericaLatin AmericaForeign relationsUnited StatesCocaine industryDrug controlDrug controlOrganized crime363.45098Marcy William L1482099MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780824403321The politics of cocaine3699485UNINA