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Introduction: Culture, Drugs, and Politics in the Americas / William O. Walker III I Cultures in Conflict 1 1 The History of Coca / W. Golden Mortimer 2 2 The Coca Debate in Colonial Peru / Joseph A. Gagliano 8 3 Coca Production in the Bolivian Yungas / Herbert S. Klein 22 4 Opium Usage in the United States, 1872 / F. E. Oliver 34 5 Nonmedical Drug Use in the United States 41 6 The War against the Murderers / Harry J. Anslinger, Will Oursler 46 7 The Origins of Inter-American Drug Control 51 II Drugs in Latin America, 1920-1940 57 8 The Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Mexico, 1926 59 9 Traffic across the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1931 60 10 The Business of Drugs in Mexico, 1936 61 11 Control across the Border / William O. Walker III 64 12 Drugs and Honduran Politics, 1933 80 13 In Defense of the Government of Honduras, 1934 82 14 Drug Trafficking and Murder in Honduras, 1935 84 15 Charges of Complicity in Honduras, 1939 85 16 The Honduran Antidrug Record in the 1930s 88 17 In Defense of Coca Growing in Bolivia, 1932 / Nicanor T. Fernandez 98 18 The Problem of Coca in Bolivian Society, 1942 / Julio Cesar Perez 107 19 Coca and Peruvian Indians, 1932 109 20 Studying Coca Production in Peru, 1936 / Oscar R. Benavides 112 III The Wartime Experience 115 21 Peruvian Cocaine and the War Effort, 1941 116 22 Cocaine Production in Peru, 1942 117 23 Drug Control in Peru, 1945 118 24 U.S. Agents in Mexico, 1941 120 25 Mexican Opium Production and Trafficking, 1943 122 26 The United States, Mexico, and Drug Control, 1943 124 27 A Drug Raid in Durango, 1944 127 IV Confrontation and Controversy 131 28 Attack on Opium Production in Mexico, 1947 / Harry J. Anslinger 133 29 U.S.-Mexican Reconciliation, 1948 134 30 Coca Chewing in Colombia, 1948 137 31 The Coca Leaf Habit in the Andes 139 32 The Coca Habit in South America, 1952 / Carlos Gutierrez Noriega 140 33 The Coca Habit in Peru, 1952 / Carlos A. Ricketts 146 34 The Problem of Coca-Leaf Chewing, 1953 / Carlos Monge M. 150 35 A System of Controlled Legalization in the United States, 1955 / Herbert Berger, Andrew A. Eggston 154 36 Interview with a Drug Dealer / David Courtwright, Herman Joseph, Don Des Jarlais 160 V Drugs and Security 167 37 Intensifying the U.S.-Mexican War on Drugs, 1960 169 38 Castro's Cuba and Illicit Drug Traffic, 1959 170 39 The Mexican Campaign against Growers, 1962 172 40 Mexico's Antidrug Campaign in the 1970s / Richard B. Craig 174 41 Drug Trafficking in Colombia, 1980 193 VI Drugs in the Americas: An Assessment 195 42 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the War on Drugs, 1988 198 43 The Drug War in Colombia, 1989 / Bruce M. Bagley 201 44 The Clinton Administration's Shift in Policy, 1944 / Thomas W. Lippman 215 45 Operation Polar Cap / Robert E. Powis 217 46 The Foreign Narcotics Policy of the United States since 1980 / William O. Walker III |
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