Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Preface

   1. Preface

      • Elizabeth Joyce, Carlos Malamud

      Pages 1-2

   2. Introduction

      • Fernando Cepeda Ulloa

      Pages 3-20

3. Consumption Patterns in Europe and Latin America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Foreign Demand for Latin American Drugs: The USA and Europe

      • Peter Reuter

      Pages 23-43

   3. Drug Consumption in Latin America

      • Augusto Pérez Gómez

      Pages 45-59

4. Drugs in Latin America: The Producer Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. The Drug Trade, Politics and The Economy: The Colombian Experience

      • Jorge Orlando Melo

      Pages 63-96

   3. The Economic and Political Impact of the Drug Trade and Drug Control Policies in Bolivia

      • Andy Atkins

      Pages 97-115

   4. The Drug Trade in Peru

      • Roberto Lerner

      Pages 117-132

   5. The Political Repercussions of Drug Trafficking in Mexico

      • María Celia Toro

      Pages 133-145

5. Money Laundering and International Drug Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Offshore Banking in the Caribbean: The Panamanian Case

      • Anthony P. Maingot

      Pages 149-171

   3. Cocaine Trafficking and British Foreign Policy

      • Elizabeth Joyce

      Pages 173-192

   4. Conclusions

      • Elizabeth Joyce

      Pages 193-209

6. Back Matter

   Pages 211-243

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In some Latin American countries, traffickers equipped with vast resources have corrupted individuals in every aspect of public life, compromising the integrity of entire national institutions - the political system and the judiciary, the military, the police, and banking and financial systems. Moreover, Latin America, like Europe and the USA, has a drug consumption problem. Yet, drug control in Latin America is beset with contradictions. For some Latin Americans, illicit drug production in the form of coca cultivation is a traditional way of life, and has often been an economic bulwark against destitution. Attempts to control the drug trade, while absorbing vast resources, have been largely ineffectual and have had dramatic and unintended consequences. This book analyses the profound consequences that the illicit drug trade has for millions of Latin Americans, and what they imply for domestic policy and for international cooperation. Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade is essential reading for students of Latin America, politics, international relations, security studies, foreign policy, economic development, criminology and law, and for anyone interested in the politics and economics of the global illicit drug trade.

• criminology
• drugs
• economy
• Europe
• foreign policy
• Institution
• international relations
• police
• Policy
• politics
• latin american politics

• Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

  Elizabeth Joyce

• Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Spain

  Carlos Malamud

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