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War on Drugs

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War on Drugs

Studies in the Failure of U.S Narcotics Policy

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EDITED BY
AlfredW.McCoy
and
AlanA.Block

First published 1992 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
War on Drugs: studies in the failure of U.S. narcotics policy /
edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Alan A. Block
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
ISBN 0-8133-8551-2
1. Narcotics, Control ofUnited States. I. McGoy, Alfred W.
II. Block, Alan A.
HV5825.W38129 1992
363.4'5'0973dc20
92-7114
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-3672-1447-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-3672-1728-0 (pbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429268557

For Our Children
Hallie Lorraine Block
and
Matthew & Michael McCoy

Contents

Alfred W. McCoy & Alan A. Block

PART ONE: United States Narcotics Policy

2 International Narcotics Control: Bushs "Other War"--Are We Winning or Losing?

James M. Van Wert

3 Failures at Home and Abroad: Studies in the Implementation of U.S. Drug Policy

Alan A. Block

PART TWO: Latin Americas Cocaine Traffic

4 Reinforcing Poverty: The Bolivian War on Cocaine

Jaime Malamud-Goti

5 Colombias Cocaine Syndicates

Rensselaer W. Lee, III

6 Honduras, the Contra Support Networks, and Cocaine: How the U.S. Government Has Augmented Americas Drug Crisis

Peter Dale Scott

7 Drug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues

Peter A. Lupsha

8 CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection

Jonathan Marshall

9 A Smugglers Paradise: Cocaine Trafficking Through the Bahamas

Bruce Bullington

PART THREE: Asias Heroin Trade

10 Heroin as a Global Commodity: A History of Southeast Asias Opium Trade

Alfred W. McCoy

11 Heroin and Highland Insurgency in the Golden Triangle

Bertil Lintner

12 Pakistan: The Empire of Heroin

Lawrence Lifschultz

1. PART ONE: United States Narcotics Policy
   1. 2 International Narcotics Control: Bushs "Other War"--Are We Winning or Losing?
   2. 3 Failures at Home and Abroad: Studies in the Implementation of U.S. Drug Policy
2. PART TWO: Latin Americas Cocaine Traffic
   1. 4 Reinforcing Poverty: The Bolivian War on Cocaine
   2. 5 Colombias Cocaine Syndicates
   3. 6 Honduras, the Contra Support Networks, and Cocaine: How the U.S. Government Has Augmented Americas Drug Crisis
   4. 7 Drug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues
   5. 8 CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection
   6. 9 A Smugglers Paradise: Cocaine Trafficking Through the Bahamas
3. PART THREE: Asias Heroin Trade
   1. 10 Heroin as a Global Commodity: A History of Southeast Asias Opium Trade
   2. 11 Heroin and Highland Insurgency in the Golden Triangle
   3. 12 Pakistan: The Empire of Heroin

Guide

Acknowledgments

This book is the product of two events: the first, a conference on narcotics policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in May 1990; the second, a seminar on drug trafficking held a year later at The Pennsylvania State University.

Gathering twenty scholars from across the country for the three-day conference in Madison was a complex and costly affair. Daniel Doeppers of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Stanley Kutler of the Harvey Goldberg Center, Barbara Stallings of the MacArthur Grant Committee, and Allen Hunter of the Havens Center provided generous financial support. Under the skillful supervision of Dr. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Wisconsin graduate students Joshua Hawley, John Roosa, Lauran Schultz, and David Streckfuss staffed the conference proceedings with good grace.

Neither could have happened without the creative and tireless efforts of Lisa Vardzel and Barbara Licatovich, doctoral candidates in the Administration of Justice Department at The Pennsylvania State University.

The eleven authors of this work greatly benefited from the insights of the other conference and seminar participants. We thank, therefore, David Musto, Jack Blum, Kathryn Meyer, Terry Parrsinen, Raphael Perl, Jonathan McWilliams, Philip Jenkins, Dennis Dayle, Richard Craig, Daniel Sheehan, Jonathan Kwitny, and Martin Grapendaal.

Wendy Bates has devoted much time and energy to put this book in order and we are deeply grateful.

Alfred W. McCoy and Alan A. Block

About the Contributors

Alan A. Block, professor of administration of justice at The Pennsylvania State University, is the author of Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas and East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York.

Bruce Bullington, associate professor of criminal justice at The Pennsylvania State University, is author of Heroin Use in the Barrio.

Jaime Malamud-Goti was adviser to the president of Argentina, state secretary, and executive vice-president of the Argentina National Commission on Drugs. He is currently professor at the Center of Advanced Studies, University of Buenos Aires, an affiliate of the Institute of Peace, and a MacArthur Fellow.

Rensselaer W. Lee, III, is an associate scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, a consultant on international narcotics enforcement, and author of White Labyrinth: Cocaine and Political Power.

Lawrence Lifschultz is the former South Asian correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Bertil Lintner is Burma correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and author of Land of Jade: A Journey Through Insurgent Burma.

Peter A. Lupsha, professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, is the author of numerous academic essays on organized crime and narcotics trafficking.

Alfred W. McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of The Politics of Heroin and Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organized Crime in Australia.

Jonathan Marshall is economics editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and co-author, with Peter Dale Scott, of Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America.

Peter Dale Scott

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