Drugs, thugs, and diplomats : U.S. policymaking in Colombia / Winifred Tate.
"In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the Colombian security forces were linked to a...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Anthropology of policy
- part 1. Militarization, Human Rights, and the U.S. War on Drugs. Domestic drug policy goes to war ; Human rights policymaking and military aid
- part 2. Putumayo on the Eve of Plan Colombia. Paramilitary proxies ; Living under many laws
- part 3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Plan Colombia. Origin stories
- part 4. Advocacy and Inevitability. Competing solidarities ; Putumayan policy claims
- Conclusion: Plan Colombia, Putumayo, and the policymaking imagination.