Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities from the Third World. Focusing on US narcotics policy, Latin America's cocaine traffic and Asia's heroin trade, the essays in this book offer evidence indicating that the war is not working.
1 U.S. Narcotics Policy: An Anatomy of Failure PART ONE: United States
Narcotics Policy 2 International Narcotics Control: Bush's other War --Are
We Winning or Losing? 3 Failures at Home and Abroad: Studies in the
Implementation of U.S. Drug Policy PART TWO: Latin America's Cocaine Traffic
4 Reinforcing Poverty: The Bolivian War on Cocaine 5 Colombia's Cocaine
Syndicates 6 Honduras, the Contra Support Networks, and Cocaine: How the U.S.
Government Has Augmented America's Drug Crisis 7 Drug Lords and
Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues 8 CIA Assets and
the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection 9 A Smuggler's Paradise: Cocaine
Trafficking Through the Bahamas PART THREE: Asia's Heroin Trade 10 Heroin as
a Global Commodity: A History of Southeast Asia's Opium Trade 11 Heroin and
Highland Insurgency in the Golden Triangle 12 Pakistan: The Empire of Heroin
Alfred W. Mccoy, Alan A Block
