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

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Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize Colombian society. This boo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Villar, Oliver (Autor), Cottle, Drew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Drug traffic > Prevention > Government policy > United States.
Cocaine industry > Colombia.
Social conflict > Colombia.
Cocaïne > Industrie > Colombie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Cocaine industry
International economic relations
Social conflict
United States > Foreign economic relations > Colombia.
Colombia > Foreign economic relations > United States.
Colombia
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize Colombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the official reasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in Colombia plausible, or are there other, deeper factors at work? Scholars Villar and Cottle suggest that the answers lie in a close examination of the cocaine trade, particularly its class dimensions. Th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1583673075
9781583673072
1583673083
9781583673089

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