Narco-Terror: the United States, the Drug War, and the War on Terror

Narco- panic the United States, the Drug War, and the War on TerrorIntroductionThe United States has had a long-standing policy of intervening in the personal matters of other nations when the country has thought it within its best interests to do so. Since the 1970s the United States has tried to impose its will on other nations to set upon the most pressing political enemy of the day often linking the fight on drugs to the matter to stoke support both domestically and abroad. In the fourth dimensions of the Cold War, this enemy was communism and the government tried to posit the connection of the Red Dope Menace insinuating drug links with China, Castros Cuba, and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. However, as the world has evolved and communisms prominence has waned, at that place is a raw(a) enemy whose existence has become intertwined with the drug war. That enemy is terrorism. The connection has gone so far that politicians and journalists return coined a new term to describe the link calling this new problem of our time Narco-terror. This paper will examine US efforts to control the drug administer and fight terrorism in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan and the desired and often undesired consequences that have come about because of those efforts.ColombiaNarcoterrorism has a long past in the account of Colombia, focusing mainly on the market development of one drug coca plantine. Colombia, with its arid tropical climate and lush land, is an ideal place for the sowing and reaping of the coca plant whose extracts are synthesized into the powder cocain drug. As Colombian cocaine production skyrocketed in the 1970s and 1980s thanks to booming lead for the product in Americas, drug kingpins in Colombia began to wield immense big businessman in the country. ... ... Connection Between Drugs and Terror. June 20, 2002. 10.Sly, Liz Opium Cash Fuels Terror February 9, 2004. 11.Colombias flushed Night. 12.Gray, Mike. Drug s and Terrorism. 13.Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Plan Colombia. March 14, 2001. 14.Taylor, Robert Peru Sendero on the uneasy in Court April 2003. 15.Sendero Luminoso Attacks.