Product Description: The present report has been prepared to facilitate a rigorous and comprehensive thematic evaluation, within available voluntary resources for determining best practices in alternative development by assessing the impact of alternative development on both human development indicators and drug control objectives and by addressing the key development issues of poverty reduction, gender, environmental sustainability and conflict resolution...read more

A comprehensive overview of the billion-dollar cocaine production industries of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia follows the drug from coca field to American streets

'Comprehensive analysis of the contents and impact of the source country control policies implemented by the US, particularly in reference to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. After detailed analysis of drug traffickers' ability to defeat 'supply-side' policies, author recommends that the US pursue 'strategic goals based on institutional building and regime stability,' that is, to focus on strengthening the police and judicial capacities of Latin American governments to confront, control, and punish drug traffickers while also assisting governments with adequate interdiction, domestic enforcement, and treatment policies'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/