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This book desribes Bolivia's coca boom and cocaine industry, the importance of drug money to the economy and the castrophic consequences of what Painter terms the country's "economic narco-addiction'.

The production, trade and use of coca in Bolivia have had enormous and wide-reaching political and socio-economic impacts, as have national and international efforts to suppress the country's drug trade. McAllister Who Are the Bad Guys? Literary Images of Narcotraffickers, P. Cepeda Ulloa The International Nexus - Where Worlds Collide, W. Khan-Melnyk International Cooperation and the War on Drugs, F. Maingot Politics and US-Jamaican Drug Trade in the 1980s, A. Weir The Drug Trade in the Caribbean - Policy Options, A. Robinson Costa Rica and the Drug Trade, C. Lemus Central America and Drug Trafficking, L. Walker III US-Mexican Border Drug Control - Operation Alliance as a Case Study, G. Mora Drug Trafficking in US-Mexican Relations - What You See Is What You Get, J. Simon Paraguay and International Drug Trafficking, F. Paez Cordero Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse in Paraguay, J.L. Andrade The Impact of Drug Trafficking on Ecuadoran Politics - 1989-1992, A. Bonilla Drug Trafficking, Drug Consumption and Violence in Ecuador, X. Gamarra Ecuador and the War on Drugs, X.A. Healy US-Bolivia Counternarcotics Efforts During the Paz Zamora Administration - 1989-1992, E. Palmer Recent Literature on Drugs in Bolivia, K. Morales Peru, Drugs and the Shining Path, D.S. Tokatlian Glyphosate and Drug Control Policy in Colombia, J.G. Reyes Drug Summitry - a Colombian Perspective, J.G. Camacho Guizado Drug Trafficking and the Guerrilla Movement in Colombia, A. Thoumi Drug Trafficking and Society in Colombia, A. Bagley The Size of the Illegal Drug Industry, F. Perl The US Military and the War on Drugs, D. The Bush Administration's Andean Drug Strategy in Historical Perspective, W. My hypothesis is that the current organizational model for DOD involvement in CN efforts is fundamentally flawed, because it has allowed short-term tactical and operational successes, but has not permitted long-term strategic success in supply suppression. Critical to this study will be an analysis of the DOD's participation in the interagency process at the sub-national and sub-institutional levels, and an assessment of the military's unit selection and command structure choices. This study will explore the military's evolution in stemming the flow of illicit narcotics from Latin America, and the current model of participation in order to determine first, its level of criticality to the national counter drug effort, second, if it has been successful in accomplishing Congressionally mandated tasks, and third, if it is an appropriate model to accomplish national counter narcotics (CN) strategy for supply suppression. As an institution it has changed from a reluctant participant to an active leader in the counter drug arena. Military in counternarcotics operations in Latin America has evolved significantly since its first -tentative efforts in 1977.