Colombian Drug Trade

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The paper shows that despite the biasness of the view that 'Colombia equals drug marketing', the truth remains that much of the world?s cocaine does originate in Colombia. This fact has important consequences for Colombia's standing in the world as well as for its relationship with the United States. This paper examines some of the consequences for the relationship between the two countries since political and economic life in Colombia have become linked to the trade in cocaine. The paper also examines how the war against drugs has been merged with the war against terrorism by the American government.

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"The war on drugs (primarily those coming from Colombia) and the war on terrorism are currently linked in American political debate because the same political philosophy supports both and the same governmental infrastructural tools and strategies can be used in both of these wars.

The U.S. government is in fact currently engaged in trying to link the war on drugs with the war on terrorism in the mind of the public not just in the sense that the two are both evils that are currently facing American society and polity but in the sense that there are actual, direct connections between the two."

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