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Drawing on declassified documents and extensive firsthand research,
"The Politics of Cocaine "takes a hard look at the role the United
States played in creating the drug industry that thrives in Central
and South America. Author William L. Marcy contends that by
conflating anti-Communist and counternarcotics policies, the United
States helped establish and strengthen the drug trade as the area's
economic base. Increased militarization, destabilization of
governments, uncontrollable drug trafficking, more violence, and
higher death tolls resulted. Marcy explores how the
counternarcotics policies of the 1970s collapsed during the 1980s
when economic calamity, Andean guerrilla insurgencies, and Reagan's
anti-Communist struggle with Nicaragua and Cuba became conflated as
part of the War on Drugs. The book then explores how the U.S.
invasion of Panama and narcotics related violence throughout Andean
region during the 1990s led to the militarization of the War on
Drugs as a way to confront narcotics production, narco-traffickers,
and narco-guerrillas alike. Marcy brings to the reader up to the
end of the George W. Bush administration and explains why to this
date the United States remains unable to control the flow of
cocaine into the United States and why the War on Drugs appears to
be spiraling out of control."" """"The Politics of Cocaine"" fills
in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of
a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem.
Title: An oration on the three hundred and eighteenth anniversary
of the discovery of America: delivered before the Tammany Society,
or Columbian Order, in the county of Rensselaer, and state of
New-York: with a traditional account of the life of Tammany, an
Indian chief.Author: William L MarcyPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02218000CollectionID:
CTRG97-B1259PublicationDate: 18090101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "Published by request of the Society."Collation: 71
p.: port
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