The White Labyrinth: Cocaine and Political Power - Hardcover

-Outstanding Title... The most valuable book to date on the subject of Latin American drug trafficking and US policy... The work is particularly strong on Colombia but gives full coverage of the drug supply nations of Peru and Bolivia as well... Lee has been able to integrate economic and political data with a solid understanding of political history, culture, and the organization and activities of the cultivators, drug traffickers, and insurgency movements that affect any US policy in this area. This book is must reading for anyone who wishes to have a good understanding of the drug trafficking problem as it affects the Western hemisphere. Well-researched and well written it should be part of any Latin American collection, as well as of national security and public policy collections of research libraries.- --P. A. Lupsha, Choice "Outstanding Title... The most valuable book to date on the subject of Latin American drug trafficking and US policy... The work is particularly strong on Colombia but gives full coverage of the drug supply nations of Peru and Bolivia as well... Lee has been able to integrate economic and political data with a solid understanding of political history, culture, and the organization and activities of the cultivators, drug traffickers, and insurgency movements that affect any US policy in this area. This book is must reading for anyone who wishes to have a good understanding of the drug trafficking problem as it affects the Western hemisphere. Well-researched and well written it should be part of any Latin American collection, as well as of national security and public policy collections of research libraries." --P. A. Lupsha, Choice "Outstanding Title... The most valuable book to date on the subject of Latin American drug trafficking and US policy... The work is particularly strong on Colombia but gives full coverage of the drug supply nations of Peru and Bolivia as well... Lee has been able to integrate economic and political data with a solid understanding of political history, culture, and the organization and activities of the cultivators, drug traffickers, and insurgency movements that affect any US policy in this area. This book is must reading for anyone who wishes to have a good understanding of the drug trafficking problem as it affects the Western hemisphere. Well-researched and well written it should be part of any Latin American collection, as well as of national security and public policy collections of research libraries." --P. A. Lupsha, Choice