Colombia's Narcotics Nightmare: How the Drug Trade Destroyed Peace

This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American) traffickers began requesting cocaine.

This book focuses on the decades of crime and violence the illegal drug trade brought to Colombia and how this social upset was ended i...