Introduction: a war of many wars -- From coca to cocaine -- From the Golden Triangle to the Crystal Triangle -- A narco-state and a narco-economy -- The narco-cartel systems (1980-1993) -- The post-cartel system -- The United States and "Plan Colombia" -- Narco-state terror -- The consequences of relocation and regionalization -- The War on Drugs: corporatization and privatization -- Conclusion: U.S.-narco-colonialism and Colombia.
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Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize Colombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the official reasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in Colombia plausible, or are there other, deeper factors at work? Scholars Villar and Cottle suggest that the answers lie in a close examination of the cocaine trade, particularly its class dimensions. Th.
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Cocaine, death squads, and the war on terror.
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9781583672518
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cocaine industry-- Colombia.
Drug traffic-- Prevention-- Government policy-- United States.
Social conflict-- Colombia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
Cocaine industry.
HISTORY-- Latin America-- South America.
International economic relations.
Social conflict.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Colombia, Foreign economic relations, United States.
United States, Foreign economic relations, Colombia.