"Drug Trafficking in the Americas". Taught by Kevin Healy, George Washington University, DC. Spring Semester, 2003.
Kevin Healy - kbiltmore@aol.com
Course Objectives: To provide a historical, comparative and contemporary picture of drug trafficking in the Americas and the Anti-narcotics Policies to combat this trade.
Books Ordered
Transnational Crime in the Americas, editor Tom Farer, Inter-American Dialogue
NACLA Newsletter. Drug Economies of the Americas, September/October 2002
More Terrible Than Death, Massacres, Drugs and Americas War in Colombia, Robin Kirk, Public Affairs 2003
Web sites: Will also use websites for readings for anti-narcotics analysis from U.S State Department, White House and United Nations and other non-governmental organizations.
January 13 Introduction to the Course
January 20 Holiday-Martin Luther King
January 27 Globalization, Public Policy and Drug Trafficking
"The Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview" ,Rensselaer w. Lee, pgs.1-38 in Farer volume
International Crime Threat Assessment, December 2000, pgs.105-121, prepared by U.S. Agency Working Group, l999
National Drug Control Strategy 2001 Annual Report(see web pgs.27-33 and 89-93)
NACLA report- pgs.8-12 and pg.17
February 3 The Evolution of the Coca and Cocaine Economy in Bolivia
" The Coca Field as a Total Coca Fact", Alison Spedding pgs.47-71 in Coca, Cocaine and the Bolivian Reality edited by Madeline Barbara Leons and Harry Sanabria, l997, State University of New York
"Boom Within the Crisis, The Impact of Foreign Cocaine Markets on Bolivian Economy and Society" Kevin Healy in Coca and Cocaine, Effects on Politics and Economy in Latin America, Effects on People and Policy in Latin America, 1986
"Transnational Criminal Organizations in Bolivia", Eduardo Gamarra, pgs.171-193 in Farer volume
"From Import Substitution to Globalization: A Tale of Two Economic Development Models", Kevin Healy, pgs.39-64 in Llamas, Weavings and Organic Chocolate, Notre Dame Press 2001
February 10 The Impact of Drug Policies in Bolivia and Debate on Plan Dignity
"The Discourse and Practice of Repression and Resistance in the Chapare", Harry Sanabria pgs. 169-195, Leons and Sanabria volume.
"The Coca Debate and Yungas Landowners During the First Half of the 20th Century" by Ana Maria Lema, Sanabria-Leons reader
"Has Bolivia Won the Drug War? Lessons From Plan Dignidad" by Eduardo Gamarra, paper presented at the State Dept. forum on "Lessons Learned from Bolivia’s Counterdrug Success", April 10,2001, Also see on web UN alternative development and crop monitoring reports(UNDCP)on Bolivia and National Drug Control Strategy 2001 Annual Report
"Political Ascent of Bolivia’s Peasant Coca Leaf Producers" Kevin Healy, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 33, No. 1: 87-121, l991
Farthing and Kohl article on peasant mobilzation in the Chapare from another issue of NACLA
February 17 George Washington Holiday
February 24 The Evolution of the Coca-Cocaine Industry in Peru
White Gold Rush in Peru, Eduardo Morales chapters 2,3, and 4 pgs.25-93,l989
Deborah Poole and Gerardo Renique, " Coca Capitalism and the New World Order"pgs. 167-185 and pgs. 19-21 in Peru, Time of Fear
"Between Coca and Cocaine; A Century or More of U.S. Peruvian Drug Paradoxes, 1860-1980" , Paul Gootenberg pgs. 1-46, Woodrow Wilson Center Series, Washington D.C.
March 3 The Impact of Drug Policies in Peru
Deborah Poole and Geraldo Renique, pgs.185-202, same chapter as above
"Comments on ‘Between Coca and Cocaine: A Century or More of U.S.-Peruvian Drug Paradoxes " Julio Cotler pgs. 47-59, Woodrow Wilson Center publication
The Bilateral Agenda from the l980’s to 2000: Narcotics Control" by Cynthia McClintock,pgs.1-35 draft chapter from United States and Peru(forthcoming), 2002
"Peru Investigation Report: The April 20,2001 Peruvian Shootdown Incident" Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, 20019(on the web)
NACLA Newsletter October 2002 p.15
March 10 Mexico’s Multiple Drug Economy and Policy Strategies
"Semi-organized International Crime: Drug Trafficking in Mexico" Peter Smith pgs.193-217 in Farer volume
"Drugs, Guerillas and Politicos in Mexico"in October 2002 NACLA issue Pgs.18-26
" Intensifying the U.S. Mexican War on Drugs,l960 "William Walker pgs.169-174 in Drugs in the Western Hemisphere, An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict , edited byWilliam Walker Jaguar Books, l996
"Mexico’s Antidrug Campaign in the l970’s" Richard Craig pgs.174-192" in Walker volume
" U.S.-Mexican Border Control: Operation Alliance as a Case Study" Gabriel Lemus, pgs.423-439 in Drug Trafficking in the Americas edited by Bruce Bagley and William Walker, North South Center l994
NACLA Newsletter, p.14
March 17 SPRING BREAK
March 24 Panama’s Role in Hemisphere Drug Trafficking
"Offshore Money", Jack Blum pgs.57-85 in Farer volume
Our Man in Panama, The Shrewd Rise and Fall of Manuel Noriega by John Dinges, chapter 1,6 and 8
March 31 Evolution of Colombia’s Drug Trafficking Role
"Colombia:Cocaine and the ‘Miracle’of Modernity in Medellin", Mary Roldan pgs.165-183 in Gottenberg volume
"The Impact of Illegal Drug Industry on Colombia", Francisco E Thoumi pgs.117-143 in Farer volume
"Brief history and Overview of the Illegal Pyschoactive Drugs Industry", "The Illegal Psychoactive Entreprenuers and their Strategies" pgs.123-167 Thoumi in Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia " l995,
NACLA Newsletter p.13 on Colombia
Chapters 1-4 in Robin Kirk Volume
April 7 Anti-narcotics Policy History in Colombia
"Colombian Policies Toward the Illegal Drugs Industry" pgs.203-233 in Thoumi book.
"Drug Summitry, A Colombian Perspective", and "Glyphosate and Drug Policy Control in Colombia" Juan Gabriel Tokatlian pgs.131-161 in Drug Trafficking in the Americas by Bagley and Walker
Chapters 5-7, Robin Kirk volume
Alejandro Reyes, "Drug Trafficking and the Guerilla Movement in Colombia" pgs.121-130 in Bagley and Walker volume
April 14 Videos on the History of Drug Trafficking in Colombia(Frontline Production) and Illicit Crop Production in the Cauca Valley
April 21 Class Debate on Plan Colombia(outside experts)
William LeoGrande and Kenneth Sharpe, "Two Wars or One, Drugs, Guerrillas and Colombia’s New Violencia" . World Policy Journal 17 (3),Fall
Transcript of interview with Thomas Pickering Under Secretary for Political Affairs, U.S, Department of State, November 27,2000
"The Aerial Eradication Program in Colombia", Background paper produced by U.S. Embassy in Bogota
Chapters 8-9 in Robin Kirk volume
Transcript of Press Conference of US Policy on Colombia-Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Office of National Drug Control Policy, November 20,2000
U.S Embassy website in Bogota on Plan Colombia
April 28 The Caribbean Drug Trade
"Laundering Drug Profits: Miami and Caribbean Tax Havens" Anthony Maingot,pgs.167-189 in the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 30 Numbers 2and 3, Summer/Fall l988
"The Decentralization Imperative and the Caribbean Criminal Enterprises" Anthony Maingot ,pgs.143-171 in Farer volume
Drugs and Security in the Caribbean, Sovereignty Under Seige, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith pgs.26-92 Pennsylvania University Press, l997,
NACLA Newsletter p.16
April 29 (make-up) Wrap-up Class and Discussion of Alternative Policies
"International Organized Crime, National Security and the "Market States" Gregory Treverton pgs.39-56 in Farer
"Fighting Transnational Crime, Measures Short of War" pgs.245-297 in Farer volume
"Legalization, Normalizing the Drug Economies: Colombia's Legalization Debate"NACLA pgs.38-43
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