Mountain High, White Avalanche: Cocaine and Power in the Andean States and Panama

by Scott B. MacDonald

Book Overview

The Latin Amnerican drug trade has become one of the major problems confronting the United States in the late twentieth century. The key dynamic of that trade is cocaine, which is primarily produced in the Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. The cocaine trade's influence, however, has spread outwards into other Andean states--Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Moreover, countries on the Andean periphery, such as Panama, have become enmeshed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275932354
• ISBN13: 9780275932350
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"