Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollarsin aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug tradeand State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result hasbeen a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilizeColombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the officialreasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in Colombiaplausible, or are there other, deeper factors at work?...