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 Lat

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pproximately 85 percent are one-year conscripts. Not only are these newly trained personnel going to be lost to the Latin American military organizations before they can have any effect in the anti-drug effort, many of the personnel will be hired by the drug cartels on their release from military service, and will be paid premium wages because of their newly acquired expertise provided by the United States military through the anti-drug effort. Latin American military authorities in countries targeted by the American anti-drug effort are also major beneficiaries of the drug war. There is strong evidence that the military authorities in the target countries expend most of the American money they receive for anti-drug efforts to pursue their own political goals by attacking the political organizations opposing the military. Unfortunately, there is also strong evidence that United States diplomats are aware of this situation, and that these same diplomats in many instances either condone or support such use of American anti-drug funds by Latin American military leaders. Political leaders in the United States have also used the drug war as a pretext to pursue their own political agendas and vendettas. George Bush used the dr
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Approximate Word count = 1659
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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