Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror

by Villar, Oliver; Cottle, Drew

• ISBN13: 9781583672518
• ISBN10: 1583672516
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

Summary

Oliver Villar is a lecturer in Politics at Charles Sturt University. For the past decade his research has been devoted to this book. Much of the research is based on his PhD dissertation on the political economy of contemporary Colombia in the context of the cocaine drug trade. He has published broadly on the Inter-American cocaine drug trade, the U.S. War on Drugs and Terror in Colombia, and U.S.-Colombian relations. Drew Cottle is a senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Western Sydney. He has written extensively on international political economy and revolutionary struggles in the Third World, and is the author of The Brisbane Line: A Re-Appraisal. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Introduction: A War of Many Wars	p. 17
From Coca to Cocaine	p. 21
From the Golden Triangle to the Crystal Triangle	p. 35
A Narco-State and a Narco-Economy	p. 55
The Narco-Cartel System (1980-1993)	p. 65
The Post-Cartel System	p. 81
The United States and "Plan Colombia"	p. 107
Narco-State Terror	p. 115
The Consequences of Relocation and Regionalization	p. 129
The War on Drugs: Corporatization and Privatization	p. 155
Conclusion: U.S. Narco-Colonialism and Colombia	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 179
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 263
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