Narco-Terror: the United States, the Drug War, and the War on Terror

Narco-Terror the United States, the Drug War, and the War on TerrorIntroductionThe United States has had a long-standing policy of intervening in the affairs of other nations when the hoidenish has thought it within its best interests to do so. Since the 1970s the United States has tried to impose its will on other nations to combat the most pressing political enemy of the day often linking the war on medicates to the matter to stoke support both domestically and abroad. In the times of the Cold War, this enemy was communism and the government tried to make the connection of the Red Dope Menace insinuating drug links with China, Castros Cuba, and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. However, as the world has evolved and communisms prominence has waned, there is a new enemy whose existence has become intertwined with the drug war. That enemy is terrorism. The connection has gone so far that politicians and journalists have coined a new term to describe the link calling this new probl em of our time Narco-terror. This paper will examine US efforts to control the drug change over and fight terrorism in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan and the desired and often undesired consequences that have come about because of those efforts.ColombiaNarcoterrorism has a long past in the history of Colombia, focussing mainly on the market development of one drug cocaine. Colombia, with its arid tropical climate and lush land, is an ideal place for the sowing and reaping of the coca plant whose extracts be synthesized into the powder cocaine drug. As Colombian cocaine production skyrocketed in the 1970s and 1980s thanks to booming demand for the product in Americas, drug kingpins in Colombia began to wield immense power in the country. ... ... Connection Between Drugs and Terror. June 20, 2002. 10.Sly, Liz Opium Cash Fuels Terror February 9, 2004. 11.Colombias Crimson Night. 12.Gray, Mike. Drugs and Terrorism. 13.Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affa irs. proposal Colombia. March 14, 2001. 14.Taylor, Robert Peru Sendero on the Offensive in Court April 2003. 15.Sendero Luminoso Attacks.