Cocaine, death squads, and the war on terror : U.S. imperialism and class struggle in Colombia / Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villar, Oliver.

Contributor:

Cottle, Drew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic--Prevention--Government policy--United States.

Drug traffic.

Cocaine industry--Colombia.

Cocaine industry.

International economic relations.

Government policy.

Colombia.

Social conflict--Colombia.

Social conflict.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Colombia.

United States.

Colombia--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2011]

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.

Contents:

1 From Coca to Cocaine 21

2 From the Golden Triangle to the Crystal Triangle 35

3 A Narco-State and a Narco-Economy 55

4 The Narco-Cartel System (1980-1993) 65

5 The Post-Cartel System 81

6 The United States and "Plan Colombia" 107

7 Narco-State Terror 115

8 The Consequences of Relocation and Regionalization 129

9 The War on Drugs: Corporatization and Privatization 155

10 Conclusion: U.S. Narco-Colonialism and Colombia 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781583672518

1583672516

9781583672525

1583672524

OCLC:

726817836