Websites:

Washington Office on Latin America

• Provides information on U.S. policy in Latin America. 

• Provides scholarly articles on current global issues such as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalisation, social injustice and environmental degradation.   

• Provides information on United States Policies in Colombia.

• Provides information on both the civil and drug wars currently going on in Colombia.

Books:

Allen, Catherine J. 1988. The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington. Smithsonian Institution Press. 

• Is a great ethnography illustrating the prominent cultural role coca plays in Andean society. 

Comaroff, John and Jean. 2002. “The Colonization of Consciousness” in Lambek, 
Michael (ed), A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Massachusetts. Blackwell Publishing.

• Provides anthropological theory regarding colonization’s effects on the construction of consciousness and the ensuing forms of resistance. 

Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: The making and Unmaking of the third World. Princeton. Princeton University Press.

• Provides a good theoretical perspective on Western development initiatives, specifically, what they were and where they came from. 

Metzger, Th. 1998. The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend. 
Washington. Loompanics Unlimited.

• Deconstructs the process of drug denominzation in America, illustrating how it stems more from socio-economic issues than from the dangerous related to using the substances. 

Mortiner, Golden. 1901. History of Coca: the Divine Plant of the Incas. Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

• It provides great information on the effects of Spanish colonization had on Coca’s role in the Andean life. 

Sanabria, Harry. 1993. The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia. Michigan. The University of Michigan Press.

• Explores how Bolivian peasant have become increasing dependent on coca as an economic commodity. 

Colombia Monitor. March 2002. “Taking Stock: Plan Colombia’s First Year”. WOLA. www.wola.org

Kirk, Robin. 2000. “Colombia’s Mortal Paradox – Exporting Drugs Means Importing Chaos.” The Americas. www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.02/000126-colombia.html.

Ledebur, Kathryn. July 2002, Coca and Conflict in the Chapare. WOLA Drug War Monitor. www.wola.org.  

Molano, Alfred. Sept/Oct 2000. “The Evolution of the FARC: A Guerrilla Group’s Long History. NACLA Report on the Americas. www.derechos.net/paulwolf/colombia.molano.htm

Youngers, Coletta. June 2, 1997. “Coca Eradication Efforts in Colombia.” The 
Transnational Institute. www.tni.org.