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Dimensions of the South American Cocaine Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rensselaer Lee III
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Drug Abuse and Attempts to Control the flow of illicit narcotics have come to pervade US relations with the Third World in recent years. The drug issue carries substantial potential for conflict and mutual recrimination between North and South. The main dmg-consuming countries are rich and industrialized; the main drug-producing countries are poor and predominantly agricultural. The drug trade generates a transfer of resources from North to South and has gained a powerful economic foothold in some Third World countries. Producing countries and consuming countries blame each other for the accelerating drug traffic and advocate, respectively, demand-side and supply-side solutions. US programs to control drug cultivation and production overseas often impinge on nationalist sensitivities. Moreover, political elites in some Third World countries view anti-drug crusades as imposing significant economic and social costs as well as creating new and formidable political challenges.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 30 , Issue 2-3: Special Issue: Assessing the Americas' War on Drugs , Summer 1988 , pp. 87 - 104
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Copyright © University of Miami 1988

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