Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated edition - Brossura

Scott, Peter Dale

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ISBN 10: 0520214498 ISBN 13: 9780520214491

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1998

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California, 1993). Scott is also a poet: in 2002, his "Seculum" trilogy won a Lannan Literary Award. Jonathan Marshall is the Economics Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (California, 1995).

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"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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• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520214498
• ISBN 13: 9780520214491
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 306