The politics of cocaine
Subtitle: how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America
By: William L. Marcy.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781556529498
Subjects: Cocaine industry -- Latin America; Drug control -- Latin America; Drug control -- United States; Organized crime -- Latin America; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America; Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : U.S. drug policy in the Northern Andes and Latin America; title: The growth of the narcotics industry in the Northern Andes, 1971-1980; title: The economic role of narcotics in Latin America, 1980-1987; title: U.S. narcotics control policies in the Northern Andes, 1980-1987; title: Reagan, the drug war, and the narco-terrorist nexus; title: Northern Andean guerrillas, drug trafficking, and cold war politics; title: The militarization of the drug war : Bush, Panama, and the Andean strategy; title: The failure of the Andean strategy; title: Clinton : from the Andean strategy to plan Colombia; title: Conclusion : U.S. drug policy comes full circle.