Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition
by Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall
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Author: Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale ScottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-10
ISBN: 0520214498
Number of pages: 279
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: A Corrupted Patriotism that Trafficked in Guns and Drugs
Summary: 4 Stars
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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