Illicit drug traffic and US-Latin America relations

In: The Washington quarterly, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 105-124

Abstract

Narcotics traffic is the paramount issue between the US and Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, and has returned to prominence in the case of Mexico. Cooperation between US and Latin American officials has improved considerably in recent years. In the long run, however, US administration will have to help Latin Ameicans in the form of access to markets, favorable lending terms and foreign aid, so as to reduce the need or the incentive to produce drugs and deal in them