"The Coca Growers." Economist, 331 (4 June 1994): 45-46.Conniff, R. "Columbia's Dirty War, Washington's Dirty Hands." Progressive, 56 (May 1992): 20-27. The second and more important source of resentment among many Latin Americans is that the United States is simply using the war on drugs as a pretense to continue to maintain a military presence in many Latin American countries and to use funding for the anti-drug effort as a tool to compel Latin American governments to kow-tow to United States policies for the Latin American region. The Latin American holding such perceptions do not accept the proposition that the United States has ceased to be a nation with colonial intentions. A third source of friction between Latin America and the United States in relation to the anti-drug effort in Latin America is that the United States is using the anti-drug campaign as a source of export earnings for the arms and chemical industries in the United States. The United States has long been perceived by many Latin Americans as a nation intent on dominating Latin America economically to the same extent that the United States has long attempted to dominate the region politically. The United States armed forces, however, remain as the actor stakeholder with the most to gain financially from the American anti-drug effort in Latin America. Although the role for the Department of Defense in the anti-drug effort is relatively new, the funding received by the armed forces has surpasses that received by Department of Justice organizations, including the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Peru." US Department of State Dispatch, 3 (2 March 1992): 178. |
