Cocaine Politics – Drugs, Armies & the CIA in Central America (Paper): Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America - Softcover

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9780520077812: Cocaine Politics – Drugs, Armies & the CIA in Central America (Paper): Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America

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ISBN 10: 0520077814 ISBN 13: 9780520077812

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

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Demonstrates the extent to which Contra support and other US covert operations in Central America have fostered and sustained ongoing relations with corrupt and criminal elements who have counted on their US governmental connections to protect their drug- and arms-smuggling activities in the US.

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Review:

"This important, explosive report forcefully argues that the 'war on drugs' is largely a sham, as the U.S. government is one of the world's largest drug pushers."--"Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California, 1993). Scott is also a poet: in 2002, his "Seculum" trilogy won a Lannan Literary Award. Jonathan Marshall is the Economics Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (California, 1995).

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