The politics of cocaine
Subtitle: how U.S. foreign policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America
By: William L. Marcy ; foreword by Jorrit Kamminga
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books; [Distributed by Independent Publishers Group]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781556529498
Notes: Distributor from jacket.

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.