Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America - Softcover

Scott, Peter Dale; Marshall, Jonathan

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9780520077812: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America

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ISBN 10: 0520077814 ISBN 13: 9780520077812

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

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Now in paperback, this penetrating account of the real drug war will lead readers to demand a more thorough accounting of foreign policy. "Scott and Marshall call for immediate action to end Washington's complicity. Their heavily documented book deserves a wide audience."--Publishers Weekly.

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"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)

About the Author:

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).

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