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Title: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall ISBN: 0-520-21449-8 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An eyeopener
Comment: Most Americans will not want to believe the contents of this book. Scott & Marshall compile mountains of evidence to support their conclusions. This book deserves more attention.
Rating: 4
Summary: disturbing and sobering necessity
Comment: This book has all the possibilities of being an academic pot boiler. Divided into two parts, "Right-Wing Narcoterrorism, the CIA, and the Contras," and "Exposure and Cover-Up" and covering twelve chapters, including a glossary of terms, the book is one part investigative journalism and another academic treatise. In general, the book details the toleration or complicity of the American government with drug traffickers to protect the interests of national security or covert operations.
The book has a number of advantages and disadvantages. First, while perhaps a moot point is that a considerable amount of discussion focuses on South America rather than on Central America as promised in the title. Second, and perhaps an editorial point, while there is a four-and-a- half page glossary of names and organizations at the back of the book, there is a sort of breathless spouting off of a succession of names and organizations in the book. This is distracting and tiresome for the reader. Third, even though there is a phenomenal amount of documentation (i.e., approximately 23 percent of the book (a total of 64 pages) is devoted to notes) and a 14-page index, the authors rely on the same basic sources, including Kerry's subcommittee report and american and mainstream newspaper and magazine coverage; few articles come from the spanish speaking press, and few interviews are conducted with sources. Fourth, while the book is highly descriptive and reads like a murder mystery, it is short on analysis, theory building or testing, and/or recommending policy changes. Regardless, this book is a disturbing and sobering necessity for those wishing to understand the so-called war on drugs in the United States and the reasons U.S. foreign policy in Latin America is problematic, a best.
Jeffrey Ian Ross
Rating: 5
Summary: Highest regard
Comment: Excellent book, responsibly written, clear and readable. The information in it is highly important if you want to understand what is going on. Just buying a second copy because my first got lent.
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Title: Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb ISBN: 1888363681 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina by Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0742525228 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Jeffrey St Clair ISBN: 1859842585 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy ISBN: 1556524838 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Deep Politics And The Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0520205197 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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