Colombia S Narcotics Nightmare

Author : James D. Henderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476618845

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Colombia's Narcotics Nightmare by James D. Henderson Pdf

This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American) traffickers began requesting cocaine. This book focuses on the decades of crime and violence the illegal drug trade brought to Colombia and how this social upset was ended in the early 2000s. Six chapters detail the Medellin and Cali cartels' war against the Colombian government, the revolutionary guerrillas' war against the government, the war that paramilitary groups conducted against the guerrillas, and the way in which the government finally put a stop to the cartel-financed bloodshed. In conclusion, the author assesses Colombia's progress and prospects since the end of the violence claimed the lives of some 300,000 between 1975 and 2008.

Author : Jennifer S. Holmes,Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres,Kevin M. Curtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779587

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Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia by Jennifer S. Holmes,Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres,Kevin M. Curtin Pdf

For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary groups in response to rebel insurgencies of the 1960s, the expansion of an illegal drug industry that has permeated politics and society since the 1970s, and a faltering economy in the 1990s. An unprecedented analysis of these struggles, Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia brings together leading scholars from a variety of fields, blending previously unseen quantitative data with historical analysis for an impressively comprehensive assessment. Culminating in an inspiring plan for peace, based on Four Cornerstones of Pacification, this landmark work is sure to spur new calls for change in this corner of Latin America and beyond.

Author : Francisco E. Thoumi
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 9280808869

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Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia by Francisco E. Thoumi Pdf

Author : Grace Livingstone
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813534437

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Inside Colombia by Grace Livingstone Pdf

This work is an introduction to who's who and what is really happening in Columbia. In one volume, it brings together the best material published on the war, the economy, social impact and prospects of peace in Columbia.

Author : Ronald Chepesiuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313015540

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The Bullet or the Bribe by Ronald Chepesiuk Pdf

For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.S. streets with cocaine, ruining neighborhoods and lives while reaping millions in cash. Efforts to combat the influx of drugs from Colombia were often stymied by the careful organization and execution of the drug trade. Through the use of bribery, terrorist structures, and legitimate business practices, the cartel rose to become a serious threat to Colombian society's fragile stability, while providing over 70% of the world's cocaine to various markets. It took more than two decades and a global effort, spearheaded by U.S. law enforcement, to topple this notorious criminal organization. The rise and fall of one of Colombia's most notorious drug cartels is a story of how organized crime can function at the most sophisticated levels, yet still be taken down by the very forces it seeks to evade. This book vividly examines the Cali Cartel, providing unique insight into the history of international trafficking, organized crime, and U.S. drug policy. Relying on first hand accounts, interviews, and DEA records, Chepesiuk brings the story to life, illustrating how drug traffickers operate and why they are so difficult to stop. In detailing law enforcement's biggest takedown, this book describes how such transnational criminal organizations must be dismantled, and why drug trafficking continues to be an important problem in the United States. The fall of the cartel also provides lessons for law enforcement efforts to combat terrorists and other formidable criminal organizations.

Author : Juan E. Méndez
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0929692489

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The "Drug War" in Colombia by Juan E. Méndez Pdf

Author : Lina Britto
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520325470

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Marijuana Boom by Lina Britto Pdf

Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1588260895

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Driven by Drugs by Russell Crandall Pdf

Crandall (political science, Davidson College) examines the evolution of US policy towards Columbia, largely driven by factors relating to the US's "war on drugs," as well as the roots of violence in Colombia. He then focuses on US policy towards the country during two key periods: the Samper administration (1994-1998) and the Pastrana administration (1998-2002). He concludes by assessing current US policy toward Colombia and suggesting directions for future policy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Winifred Tate
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804795678

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Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats by Winifred Tate Pdf

In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the Colombian security forces were linked to abusive, drug-trafficking paramilitary forces. Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats examines the U.S. policymaking process in the design, implementation, and consequences of Plan Colombia, as the aid package came to be known. Winifred Tate explores the rhetoric and practice of foreign policy by the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon, Congress, and the U.S. military Southern Command. Tate's ethnography uncovers how policymakers' utopian visions and emotional entanglements play a profound role in their efforts to orchestrate and impose social transformation abroad. She argues that U.S. officials' zero tolerance for illegal drugs provided the ideological architecture for the subsequent militarization of domestic drug policy abroad. The U.S. also ignored Colombian state complicity with paramilitary brutality, presenting them as evidence of an absent state and the authentic expression of a frustrated middle class. For rural residents of Colombia living under paramilitary dominion, these denials circulated as a form of state terror. Tate's analysis examines how oppositional activists and the policy's targets—civilians and local state officials in southern Colombia—attempted to shape aid design and delivery, revealing the process and effects of human rights policymaking.

Author : Alejandro Gaviria,Daniel Mejia
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780826503756

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Anti-Drug Policies in Colombia by Alejandro Gaviria,Daniel Mejia Pdf

Forty years after the declaration of the "war on drugs" by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot. Several former Latin American presidents and leading intellectuals from around the world have drawn attention to the ineffectiveness and adverse consequences of prohibitionism. This book thoroughly analyzes the drug policies of one of the main protagonists in this war. The book covers many topics: the economics of drug production, the policies to reduce consumption and decrease supply during the Plan Colombia, the effects of the drug problem on Colombia's international relations, the prevention of money laundering, the connection between drug trafficking and paramilitary politics, and strategies against organized crime. Beyond the diversity in topics, there is a common thread running through all the chapters: the need to analyze objectively what works and what does not, based on empirical evidence. Presented here for the first time to an English-speaking audience, this book is a contribution to a debate that urgently needs to transcend ideology and preconceived opinions.

Author : Francisco E. Thoumi
Publisher : United Nations Univ
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 9280808869

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Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia by Francisco E. Thoumi Pdf

Author : Oliver Villar,Drew Cottle
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583673072

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Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror by Oliver Villar,Drew Cottle Pdf

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. Their analysis reveals that this trade has fueled extensive economic growth and led to the development of a "narco-state" under the control of a "narco-bourgeoisie" which is not interested in eradicating cocaine but in gaining a monopoly over its production. The principal target of this effort is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who challenge that monopoly as well as the very existence of the Colombian state. Meanwhile, U.S. business interests likewise gain from the cocaine trade and seek to maintain a dominant, imperialist relationship with their most important client state in Latin America. Suffering the brutal consequences, as always, are the peasants and workers of Colombia. This revelatory book punctures the official propaganda and shows the class war underpinning the politics of the Colombian cocaine trade.

Author : Robin Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111973215

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More Terrible Than Death by Robin Kirk Pdf

The only contemporary history of Colombia and the drug war and "a vividly written and often mesmerizing first-hand account of the violence" "--The Wall Street Journal"

Author : Christopher Paul,Colin P. Clarke,Chad C. Serena
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833084446

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Mexico Is Not Colombia by Christopher Paul,Colin P. Clarke,Chad C. Serena Pdf

Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies may offer lessons for policymakers as they cope with challenges related to violence and corruption in that country.

Author : David Monnery
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 0008154910

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Colombian Cocaine War (SAS Operation) by David Monnery Pdf

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS succeed in rescuing one of their own from a fearsome drug cartel? The end of 1980s sees the rise of the cocaine cartels of Colombia, criminal organisations as powerful as armies, whose malign reach stretches from the coca fields of Bolivia to the streets of London and New York. Needing help in the training of its elite Anti-Narcotics Unit, the Colombian Government turns to Britain and the legendary SAS. Two veterans are dispatched to Bogotá. When one of them is kidnapped and held for ransom by the cartels, the only hope of securing his release seems to lie with the rest of the regiment back in England. Getting into Colombia will be hard enough. Getting out more perilous still, as the men of the SAS face dangers in every corner of a violent land, as they are pursued from the streets of Bogotá, through the high mountains of the Andes, and on down into the Amazon rain forests.