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Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition Paperback – April 10, 1998

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When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Broad in scope and extensively documented, Cocaine Politics shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the U.S. government has repeatedly collaborated with and protected major international drug traffickers. A new preface discusses developments of the last six years, including the Mercury News stories and the public reaction they provoked.
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"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

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"Tells the sordid story of how elements of our own government went to work with narcotics traffickers, and then fought to suppress the truth about what they had done."—Jonathan Winer, Counsel, Kerry Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press (April 10, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520214498
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520214491
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.77 x 8.8 inches
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  • Nathaniel Wallace
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read: Peter Dale Scott Delivers Another Piece of Riveting Scholarship!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013
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    This text offers a well-written and thoroughly researched expose on the deleterious impact of U.S. foreign policy on Central America's ability to develop economies that work long-term for them; and how the CIA is able to engineer political results that maintain the status-quo of American imperial domination over the entire western hemisphere. The CIA's complicity in allowing anti-communists, and typically right-wing brutes, to distribute cocaine to fund their para-military operations and oppression of the people of Central America. The effect is a permanently marginalized population in a place such as Nicaragua; because of their hopeless dependency on U.S. aid as a means for merely surviving in this harsh economic and social landscape that has come to pass.
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  • Luis Carlos Ramos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Why billions in taxes did not scratch the cocaine business so far?
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2013
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    I had always this question in mind and this book throws some light on it. It seems that the feds have thrown the tower and aligned to the traffickers helping them to get rid off their competitors... The point is just to control where the profit goes, no matter the cost of it as long as it serves for some political intends.
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  • Christopher Beckwith
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Corrupted Patriotism that Trafficked in Guns and Drugs
    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2004
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    This is a densely packed book that serves more as a collation of other sources - the exhaustive task of assembling it was no small feat and much thanks is to be given to Mr. Scott and Mr. Marshall for doing so. The story of drug corruption south of the border during the seventies and eighties is an epic of near mind- numbing detail, with dozens of story lines and characters intersecting at multiple junctures. This is, admittedly, no easy read, nor, for that matter, is the violence and corruption the book describes easy to stomach. But if we are to understand anything about the drug wars, aside from our government's own culpability, we must recognize how the US's unending appetite for narcotics is an integral part - if not extension - of our Cold War legacy. Forget the sanctimonious anti-drug bumper sticker slogans. Cocaine Politics shows us the Big Lie behind the fatuous eighties era motto of "Just say no."
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  • Guy W. Seamster
    5.0 out of 5 stars COCAINE POLITICS
    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2009
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    I just ordered this for my roommate for a project he is doing at Appalachian State University. The only thing he had to say about the book was thanks so I guess it is serving his purpose!
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  • Emac
    3.0 out of 5 stars Scholarly If Circular
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2016
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    Repetitious and rambling, it is a great resource for scholars compiling research for a thesis. It is less useful for laymen attempting to simply understand the connections. If you weren't on a congressional subcommittee in the 1980s/1990s, you want to have Google up while you read.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Must be read
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018
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  • Alberto Rodriguez
    1.0 out of 5 stars dont bother with this book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2008
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    plain and simple dont waste your money on this old information taken of other official documents dont waste your dollars
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  • Nancy Kasten
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2014
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    very satisfied.
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