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Drug Use and Drug Policy
The articles in this collection provide an overview of the research and writing on this topic between 1991 and 1995.
The Politics of Cocaine
Drawing on declassified documents and extensive firsthand research, The Politics of Cocaine takes a hard look at the role the United States played in creating the drug industry that thrives in Central and South America. Author William L. Marcy contends that by conflating anti-Communist and counternarcotics policies, the United States helped establish and strengthen the drug trade as the area's economic base. Increased militarization, destabilization of governments, uncontrollable drug trafficking, more violence, and higher death tolls resulted. Marcy explores how the counternarcotics policies of the 1970s collapsed during the 1980s when economic calamity, Andean guerrilla insurgencies, and R...
D.C. Reorganization Proposals
Considers. H.R. 10521, to provide for the reorganization of the D.C. government. H.R. 11555 and related H.R. 11635, to provide for the elections of the D.C. Commissioner and D.C. School Board members. H.R. 11872, to establish the D.C. Department of Management, to provide for the election of the D.C. Board of Education and to extend the powers of the D.C. Commissioners.
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Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror
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...
