Colombia's Narcotics Nightmare: How the Drug Trade Destroyed Peace

by James D. Henderson

This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American) traffickers began requesting cocaine. This book focuses on the decades of crime and violence the illegal drug trade brought to Colombia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786479175
• ISBN13: 9780786479177
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher