America's Shadow Drug War. / Joshua Cooper Ramo.
by Ramo, Joshua Cooper; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 68Health. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Air warfare | Drug abuse -- Treatment | Drug traffic -- Colombia | Drug traffic -- Peru | Missionaries | Narcotics -- Control of -- Colombia | Narcotics -- Control of -- Latin America | Narcotics -- Control of -- Peru | Peru -- Armed ForcesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Iquitos [Peru] is the kind of town you might expect to read about in the pages of Joseph Conrad, tucked hard along the Amazon and alive with equal parts danger and promise. It draws missionaries of all kinds, zealots intent on changing the world by starting here. It was two such crusades--one to stop the narcotraffic that runs on this river and one that is trying to being Jesus to its darkest corners--that collided 140 miles east of town April 20 [2001] when a Peruvian jet shot down an unarmed Cessna carrying missionaries back from an upriver stint." (TIME) The author describes Peru's shoot-down policy and details the conflicting reports between the Peruvian government and the U.S. CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] as to who is to blame for this drug war tragedy.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: America's Shadow Drug War, May 7, 2001; pp. 36+.
"Iquitos [Peru] is the kind of town you might expect to read about in the pages of Joseph Conrad, tucked hard along the Amazon and alive with equal parts danger and promise. It draws missionaries of all kinds, zealots intent on changing the world by starting here. It was two such crusades--one to stop the narcotraffic that runs on this river and one that is trying to being Jesus to its darkest corners--that collided 140 miles east of town April 20 [2001] when a Peruvian jet shot down an unarmed Cessna carrying missionaries back from an upriver stint." (TIME) The author describes Peru's shoot-down policy and details the conflicting reports between the Peruvian government and the U.S. CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] as to who is to blame for this drug war tragedy.
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