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Mountain High, White Avalanche Cocaine and Power in the Andean States and Panama
By Scott B. MacDonald
Foreword by Norman A. Bailey
Published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C
ISBN: 0-275-93235-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-93235-0
166 pages, maps, tables
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 6/1/1989
List Price: $14.95 (UK Sterling Price: £8.99)
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Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: The Washington Papers
Series Number: 137
Reviews:
  • MacDonald looks at the connection between drugs and terrorism in South American and Panama. The last chapter views policy operations for the U.S.
    —Booknotes
  • 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 explored between the political and economic power of those in the cocaine trade-the 'narcotraficantes'-and the governments in the region. Policy options are assessed.
    —Criminal Justice Abstracts
Description: The Latin American drug trade has become one of the major problem confronting the United States in the late twentieth century. The key dynamic of that trade is cocaine, which is primarily produced in the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. The cocaine trade's influence, however, has spread outwards into other Andean states--Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Moreover, countries on the Andean periphery, such as Panama, have become enmeshed in the trade as transit points and money-laundering centers. This book examines the cocaine trade in the Andean states and Panama with a special emphasis given to the relationship between cocaine and power, or stated in another fashion: what are 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. Although the book concentrates on the structure of the cocaine industry in the Andean states and Panama, the final chapters offer policy options on how to contend with the problem.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • About the Author
  • Summary
  • A Mountain High-Problem
  • Colombia: Where the Avalanche Begins
  • Peru and Bolivia: Where Cocaine Is King
  • Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile: Future Avalanches
  • Panama: At the End of the Avalanche
  • Policy Options for the United States
  • Notex
  • Index
LC Card Number: 88-39214
LCC Class: HV5840
Dewey Class: 363.4
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