The politics of cocaine [[electronic resource] ] : how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America / / William L. Marcy
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Marcy William L
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| Titolo: |
The politics of cocaine [[electronic resource] ] : how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America / / William L. Marcy
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, IL, : Chicago Review Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.45098 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cocaine industry - Latin America |
| Drug control - Latin America | |
| Drug control - United States | |
| Organized crime - Latin America | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Latin America Economic conditions 20th century |
| United States Foreign relations Latin America | |
| Latin America Foreign relations United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Strategy |
| 8 Clinton: From the Andean Strategy to Plan ColombiaConclusion U.S. Drug Policy Comes Full Circle; Notes; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The politics of cocaine |
| ISBN: | 1-56976-560-X |
| 1-56976-559-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780824403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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