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1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drug traffic -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
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Drug traffic. |
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Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Cocaine industry -- Colombia.
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Cocaine industry. |
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Colombia. |
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Social conflict -- Colombia.
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Social conflict. |
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United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Colombia.
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International economic relations. |
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Colombia -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cottle, Drew, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Villar, Oliver. Cocaine, death squads, and the war on terror. New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2011 9781583672518 (DLC) 2011044284 (OCoLC)726817836 |
| ISBN |
1583673075 (electronic book) |
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9781583673072 (electronic book) |
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9781583672518 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1583672516 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781583672525 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1583672524 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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