Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror: U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia

Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars
in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade
and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has
been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize
Colombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the official
reasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in Colombia
plausible, or are there other, deeper factors at work?

Scholars Villar and Cottle suggest t...