Preface, xv Acknowledgments, xvii International Drug Trafficking and the War on Drugs: A Historical Overview, xix Andres Pastrana Arango President, Republic of Colombia The future of countries in all parts of the world and the well-being of their citizens depends on it. We must move forward vigorously to meet the formidable challenge that the illegal drug trade poses. To defeat the drug trafficking menace demands a true alliance between countries both consuming and producing illegal drugs under the principle of joint responsibility, reciprocity, and fairness. The narcotics trade, because of its huge profits and its destabilizing power, is one of the central factors generating violence in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States, and is a growing menace in other countries as traffickers seek new routes to spread their poison. Send to Colombia that are vital to the cocaine and heroin production. Increased efforts must be made, for example, to take away from the drug traffickers the money and properties obtained through the illegal trade, to fight money laundering of drug profits, and control the chemicals multinational companies knowingly
Governments must focus significant attention on this problem and be determined to combat narcotics, which threatens the democratic institutions and the integrity of both consumer and producer nations. But with the end of the major drug cartels the business of narcotrafficking had become like a hydra, more fractured, more international, less public, and therefore more difficult to uproot. Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĬolombia has been at the very frontlines of the struggle described within the pages of this encyclopedia, facing down the drug cartels and their campaigns of bloody intimidation and terror, for which we have paid a high price, losing many of our finest citizens in the process. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116–1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Used by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 38640 (Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress.Ġ3 02 01 00 99 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ABC-CLIO, Inc. Portions of this work are from Hard Target: The United States War against International Drug Trafficking, 1982–1997. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publishers.
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