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Mountain High, White Avalanche
Cocaine and Power in the Andean States and Panama
Series: The Washington Papers
By Scott B. MacDonald Foreword by Norman A. Bailey
Published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.

0-275-93234-6/978-0-275-93234-3

Description
The Latin American drug trade is one of the major problems confronting the United States in the late 20th century. This book examines the cocaine trade in the Andean states and Panama with a special emphasis given to the relationship between cocaine and power. MacDonald examines the linkages between the political and economic power of those in the cocaine trade, the narcotraficantes, and the governments in the region. Important parts of this issue are the "drug-insurgency nexus" and the significance of the debt crisis. The final chapters offer policy options on how to contend with the problem.

Reviews:
-MacDonald . . . [provides] us with a concise, well-researched overview of how cocaine became a national security threat to the United States and other countries. . . . MacDonald has written a concise volume that provides us with the background necessary to develop the needed policy. —Defense & Diplomacy
-A study examines the structure of the cocaine trade in the Andean nations-Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela-and in Panama. Linkages are explore between the political and economic power of those in the cocaine trade- the 'narcotraficants'-and the governments in the region. Policy options are assessed. —Criminal Justice Abstracts
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