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Dancing on a Volcano: The Latin American Drug Trade
Dancing on a Volcano The Latin American Drug Trade Author:Scott B. MacDonald This provocative, informative book explores what is rapidly becoming a major obstacle in inter-American relations. Despite the common problems created by increasing drug addiction and drug-related violence, each side continues to blame the other for the deepening crisis. There is, as MacDonald emphatically states, enough blame to go around for e... more »veryone. He puts the Latin American drug trade in much-needed perspective, providing both historical background and insight on the contemporary political ramifications of drug trafficking. Because the drug trade is an inter-American phenomenon, the solution to it will have to be a joint one. Among the problems that will have to be faced, according to the author, are Cuba's role as an active middleman in the drug trade, the U.S. market for illegal drugs, the impact of the drug trade on U.S. policy in the region, and the interrelationship of the drug problem to the Latin American debt crisis.« less