Publication

The paper addresses the complicated but increasingly clear nexus between the political and social insurgencies and the drug traffickers in Columbia. The author states that the US is obliged to re-examine whether its counternarcotics strategy can succeed if it is not accompanied by a willingness to assist the Colombian government improve its ability to defeat guerrillas and regain control of its national territory. He argues that it will not be possible to constrict the production or trafficking in narcotics as long as the Colombian government cannot enforce law over its national territory.