RT Article
T1 Cocaine, the contras, and the United States: how the U.S. government has augmented America's drug crisis
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 16
IS 1
SP 97
OP 131
A1 Scott, Peter Dale 1929-
LA English
YR 1991
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884506887
AB A study of Washington's connections to Honduran and other contra supporters in the illicit drug traffic shows that such gray alliances for covert operations are themselves a major part of this country's drug problem. It is true that the U.S. has arrested contra supporters on drug charges; but, time after time, these drug arrests have come after the U.S. has ceased to promote the contra faction which those arrested had been supporting. The new Bush drug strategy seems unlikely to affect the window of drug smuggling opportunity opened by Washington's relations with the corrupt Honduran military, and may well open new such windows by new grey alliances with the corrupt right-wing forces in the Andean countries of origin.Footnote 1
K1 Cocaine
K1 Drug Traffic
K1 Illicit Drug
K1 International Relation
K1 Major Part
DO 10.1007/BF00389740