Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. The Origin of Drug Policies -- 1. A US Preoccupation -- Puritanism: The Empire's Answer to Too Much Technological Success -- The Immorality of Drugs -- Prohibitionist Laws with No Parliamentary Debate -- 2. International Drug Control -- Drug Diplomacy -- US "Intolerance"and European "Incomprehension" -- Prohibitionist Policies Promote Crime -- 3. Postwar Schizophrenic Dualism -- Harsh McCarthyism -- The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Coca Leaf Study (1950) -- The 1961 Single Convention on Natural Drugs -- The Reactions of Scientists and Young People -- Chapter II. The Coca Leaf vs. Cocaine -- 1. Cocaine in the Andes -- Indigenous Consumption -- Profane and Religious Uses -- The Dissemination of Coca Among Scientists -- 2. Cocaine -- Chemistry, Pharmaco-Dynamics and Similarity to Amphetamines -- The Uses of Coca and Cocaine in the 19th Century -- Cocaine and Social Control over African-Americans -- The Substitution of Cocaine by Amphetamines and Coca-Cola -- The Cocaine Boom -- 3. Paste Cocaine and Crack -- Marginal and Youth Consumption -- Consumption In Europe -- Cocaine Use Or Abuse? -- Use In Latin America -- 4. Legal Coca -- Chapter III. Illegal Drug Trafficking -- 1. Economic Significance -- Andean Countries: Net Exporters of Capital -- Coca/Cocaine: The Boom in the Production Cycle -- A New Chapter in Criminal Economy -- 2. Crops -- Monocrops of the Coca Bush -- The Fallacy of Environmental Degradation -- Coca in Peru -- Coca in Bolivia -- Coca in Colombia -- 3. Processing and Distribution -- 4. Financial Conversion -- Colombia -- Bolivia -- Peru -- Financial Havens -- The Role of the US -- 5. The Transformation of Andean Societies -- Chapter IV. US-Latin American Relations -- 1. Historical Relations -- Up to World War II: Expansionism, Imperialism and Hegemonic Power.

From World War II to the Crisis of Hegemony -- a) Stability and Globalism -- b) The Cuban Revolution and the Search for Policies on Latin America -- The invalidity of regional schemes: globalism and third worldism -- 2. The Crisis of the 1970s -- 3. Security and Development in Inter-American Relations -- Chapter V. The Conservative Revolution -- 1. The Neo-Conservative Program -- 2. The Crusade Against Drugs -- 1. Rhetoric (1980- 1984): Symbol of the Conservative Revolution -- 2. The Formation of the Crusade (1984-1988) -- The Doctrine of National Security -- 3) The Crusade Replaced the Cold War (1988-1990) -- The Vienna Convention, or The Cocaine Convention (1988) -- 4) The Consolidation and Globalization of the Crusade -- World Plan of Action. United Nations (1990) -- Chapter VI. The Cocaine War -- 1. The New Geo-Political Doctrine -- 2. Low Intensity War: The Narco-Guerrilla -- 3. The Incorporation of the Armed Forces -- A. The Andean Region -- B. The Southern Cone -- C. Mexico and Central America -- D. Eradication and Alternative Development -- Conclusion -- Schedules of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime -- Bibliography.