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The Andean Cocaine Industry

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The Andean nations of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the heartland of cocaine, in addition to a growing heroin source. The use of extensive field research, Clawson and Lee examine the configuration of the drug industry from field to arrival in The USA, from the farmers to the processors, the traffickers, and the international criminals. They analyze the economic and political have an effect on of the drug business on the Andean nations, including such problems as the undermining of legitimate business and the exacerbation of violence and corruption. The fight against narcotics in the Andean nations has included quite a lot of strategies, implemented with varying degrees of enthusiasm – promotion of alternative crops, eradication of plants, destruction of labs, interdiction of flights, and negotiations with drug lords. A few of these policies have had counterproductive social, political, and economic effects, eg, generating popular sympathy for drug kingpins, driving rural populations to toughen guerrilla movements, attracting new migrant to coca-growing areas, or acting as a coca price toughen program by destroying excess leaves. The USA government has financed much of the Andean counternarcotics effort. Clawson and Lee ask such questions as whether a different mix of policies, with the same dollars spent would have done more to reduce the coca glide, whether curbing narcotics production is an achievable objective (and if not what US in a foreign country programs will have to attempt to accomplish), and whether the Andean countries would benefit economically and politically from the legalization of drugs.

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