Research On The Drug Diplomatic Wrangling Between U.S. And Latin America,1975-1995

As the only superpower in the world today,the United States has endless problems under its glamorous surface.The drug problem,which has caused serious harm to the country and social development,has always been a headache for the United States,which has always been the world’s largest consumer of drugs.In the 70 s of the 20 th century,with the defeat of the Vietnam War and the popularity of hippie culture,drug use in the United States ushered in another climax.In order to solve the growing problem of drug use at home,the United States began to implement its own anti-drug policy on its largest drug "supplier",Latin American countries.In the process,due to the different purposes,expectations and interests of bilateral cooperation,a series of diplomatic wrangling were launched around anti-narcotics cooperation.By analyzing the process of drug diplomacy between the United States and Latin American countries from 1975 to 1995,this paper hopes to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the drug diplomatic wrangling between the United States and Latin America.Mexico and Colombia were the largest heroin suppliers and cocaine suppliers to the United States at that time,respectively,and the United States never stopped playing with the above two countries on drug control,which was very representative in the drug diplomatic wrangling between the United States and Latin American countries.Therefore,this paper mainly takes the drug diplomatic wrangling between the United States and Mexico and the United States and Colombia as an example,and focuses on the dispute between the United States and Mexico "Operation Condor and the"extradition regulations" between the United States and Colombia.On the basis of combing the research on drug policy and drug diplomacy in domestic and foreign academic circles,the introduction part analyzes and explores the background,significance and research methods of drug diplomacy wrangling between the United States and Latin America,so as to determine the feasibility of writing this paper.The first chapter mainly traces the traditional political policy of the United States towards Latin America,the transfer of the drug industry to Latin America,the supply-side strategy of the United States drug control,and the fourth section provides a detailed introduction to the drug background of Mexico and Colombia in the 70 s.The United States has always been influenced by expansionism in its diplomacy with Latin American countries,and has always interfered in the internal affairs of other countries in its political diplomacy.Even in the context of the pursuit of equal cooperation in US-Latin American relations in the second half of the 20 th century,expansion and hegemony have never disappeared,and have always affected the fairness of US-Latin American diplomacy.Chapters 2 and 3 describe the drug diplomacy wrangling between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Colombia,respectively.Mexico,the southern neighbor of the United States,became Latin America’s only heroin producer in the 70 s and a springboard for drugs from South American countries to flow into the U.S.market.The grievances that began in the Mexican-American War in the mid-19 th century have mixed national sentiments in Mexico’s diplomacy with the United States.Despite its desire to be independent,Mexico was forced to cooperate with the United States under pressure from U.S.power politics.As Colombia was the largest producer of cocaine in Latin America at that time,the security threat of drug lords to Colombia and the threat of drugs to the United States gave the two sides a common will to cooperate in drug control.However,due to the inconsistency of the purpose of bilateral cooperation,the two sides have deep differences in the process of cooperation.Against this backdrop,Colombia has repeatedly rebelled in submission and defiance.Chapters 2 and 3 use a large number of first-hand historical materials such as diplomatic literature,hoping to provide specific case support for the views of subsequent chapters through two representative cases of drug diplomacy between the United States and Latin America.Chapter 4 is supported by the case studies of the second and third chapters,and analyzes the impact of the drug diplomacy wrangling between the United States and Latin America,although the drug diplomacy wrangling of the United States and Latin American countries is a wrangling around anti-drug cooperation.However,the impact of bilateral diplomacy has never been limited to drugs,and the impact of drug diplomacy on politics and economics cannot be ignored.And depending on the country that takes the initiative in the wrangling,the nature of the influence is also different.For a long time,due to the wrong anti-drug policy of the United States,the impact when the United States takes the initiative in the wrangling is often not conducive to bilateral development;When Latin American countries take the initiative,it will have a more positive impact on Latin American economy and national security.The drug diplomatic wrangling between the United States and Latin America is a long-term and complex process,consisting of anti-drug cooperation programs between the United States and different Latin American countries.In this process,the shift of wrangling initiative has an important impact on the politics and economy of the United States and Latin America and the drug problem itself.The exploration of this question has enlightening implications for a deep understanding of the political diplomacy between the United States and Latin American countries.