LEADER 03289nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910780824403321 005 20230725041635.0 010 $a1-56976-560-X 010 $a1-56976-559-6 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008889 035 $a(EBL)473794 035 $a(OCoLC)592756109 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296950 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395950 035 $a(PQKB)11328978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC473794 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL473794 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10360206 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL534950 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008889 100 $a20090813d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of cocaine$b[electronic resource] $ehow U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America /$fWilliam L. Marcy 210 $aChicago, IL $cChicago Review Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-03699-2 311 $a1-55652-949-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Strategy 327 $a8 Clinton: From the Andean Strategy to Plan ColombiaConclusion U.S. Drug Policy Comes Full Circle; Notes; Index 330 $aDrawing 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 counternarc 606 $aCocaine industry$zLatin America 606 $aDrug control$zLatin America 606 $aDrug control$zUnited States 606 $aOrganized crime$zLatin America 607 $aLatin America$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zLatin America 607 $aLatin America$xForeign relations$zUnited States 615 0$aCocaine industry 615 0$aDrug control 615 0$aDrug control 615 0$aOrganized crime 676 $a363.45098 700 $aMarcy$b William L$01482099 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780824403321 996 $aThe politics of cocaine$93699485 997 $aUNINA