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Latin American-United States Relations

LATIN AMERICAN-UNITED STATES RELATIONS

This research examines Latin American-United States relations. This examination of conducted within the context of international relations. As this examination is brief, the focus is placed on one of the more sensitive of the issues involved in the relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America. This issues is the so-called war on drugs.

Americans who regularly consume illicit drugs number in the millions. American demand for illicit drugs is the primary source of the international illicit drug problem. In spite of all the resources committed to the so-called drug war, the production of illicit drugs continues to increase, and the supply of illicit drugs available to American consumers continues to increase, in spite of governmental claims to the contrary. In the face of United States government policy to reduce the cultivation of illicit drugs in Latin America, the number of countries that grow, produce, and traffic in drugs has increased since the Cartagena drug summit.

The Department of Defense in the United States is a principal actor stakeholder in the nation's war on drugs in relation to Latin America. Through the war on drugs, the armed forces are being provided with a basis to continue to demand funds for equipment and personnel that would have otherwise been lost with the end of the Cold War.

The Bush Administration was a major actor stakeholder in the nation's war on drugs in relation to Latin America. The Clinton Administration has embraced these policies. By concentrating the anti-drug effort in Latin America, the Administrations are able to persuade the American people that costly, unpleasant efforts to control consumption in the United States are unnecessary. The Administrations are also able to avoid the spectacle of a heavy-handed governmental repression of marijuana producers in the United States; an action that could easily cause p...

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Latin American-United States Relations. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 08:55, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1694131.html