Widening Destruction: Drug War in the Americas

Why, we ask in this Report, is the United States intervening in Colombia’s civil conflict? And why is the United States fighting a seemingly counterproductive war against a group of mood-altering substances? And what is the connection between these two questions: Is it really a war on drugs that motivates the U.S. role in the Andes? Or is something else going on?

July/August
2001
Volume: 
35
Number: 
1