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Mountain High, White Avalanche Cocaine and Power in the Andean States and Panama

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By Scott B. MacDonald

Foreword by Norman A. Bailey
Published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.

ISBN: 0-275-93234-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-93234-3

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166 pages, maps, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/1/1989

List Price: $97.95 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Series Title: The Washington Papers

Series Number: 137

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

Description: The Latin Amnerican drug trade has become one of the major problems 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-lanudering centers. This book examines the cocaine trade in the Andean states and Panana 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. 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
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
Index

LC Card Number: 88-39214

LCC Class: HV5840

Dewey Class: 363.4


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