%0 Book %A Marcy, William Learned %I Chicago Review Press %D 2010 %C Chicago, Ill. %G English %@ 9781556529498 %T The politics of cocaine: how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America %U https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz323470017inh.htm %X Introduction : U.S. drug policy in the Northern Andes and Latin America -- The growth of the narcotics industry in the Northern Andes, 1971-1980 -- The economic role of narcotics in Latin America, 1980-1987 -- U.S. narcotics control policies in the Northern Andes, 1980-1987 -- Reagan, the drug war, and the narco-terrorist nexus -- Northern Andean guerrillas, drug trafficking, and cold war politics -- The militarization of the drug war : Bush, Panama, and the Andean strategy -- The failure of the Andean strategy -- Clinton : from the Andean strategy to plan Colombia -- Conclusion : U.S. drug policy comes full circle