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The word “drugs” has positive and negative connotations. President Clinton talks about anti-retroviral drugs for the developing world, but there are also illicit drugs, especially opium, heroin and cocaine. This week on Worldview, we examine the political economy and history of the illicit drug trade in our series, The Geopolitics of Drugs.
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| Geopolitics of Drugs: Drug War Whistleblower |
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| Celerino "Cele" Castillo, III — Author, Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War; 12 year veteren of DEA; Witnessed drug smuggling by Nicaraguan Contras from the Ilopango Air Force Base with the same pilots, planes and hangers as the CIA used, under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, for covert supply to the Contras. |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Immigration and the Mexican Drug Trade |
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Sam Quinones — Los Angeles Times Staff Writer; Author of Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
Extended Web Interview |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Narcoavión de Guantánamo |
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Jonah Meadows — Producer, Worldview
Find out how a US registered plane, N987SA, went from making trips between Connecticut and Guantanamo Bay to crashing into the jungles of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, with several tons of Colombian drugs on board. It exposes the shady world of private planes and drug smuggling in the "wild west of aviation," South Florida.
Web Extras:
-Video of N987SA Crash Site from Mexican TV
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| Geopolitics of Drugs: Women’s Roles in the Illicit Drug Economy |
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| Tammy Anderson—Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware; Author of the forthcoming book Neither Villain Nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Drug Addiction in Iranian Film |
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| Milos Stehlik — Director of Facets Multimedia; Worldview Film Contributor |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Drug Policy in Afghanistan |
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| Barnett Rubin—Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University; Co-editor of the blog Informed Comment: Global Affairs; Fellow—Council on Foreign Relations |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Afghan Poppies for Medicine |
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| Norine MacDonald — Founder of The Senlis Council |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Wooing Afghan Farmers Off the Drug Trade |
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Miranda Kennedy — Producer for the World Vision Report
Listen to the story: Wooing Afghan Farmers Off the Drug Trade |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Opium Regimes |
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| Timothy Brook—Professor and Fellow of Chinese Studies at Oxford University; Professor of History at the University of British Columbia; Co-editor and Contributor to the book Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: West Africa Drug Trade |
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| Emmanuel K. Akyeampong—Professor of History, African and African American Studies at Harvard University; Author of the article Diaspora and Drug Trafficking in West Africa: A Case Study of Ghana for the July 2005 volume of the Oxford journal African Affairs. |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Legalization [For] |
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| Ethan Nadelmann—Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance; Wrote article for the September/October 2007 issue of Foreign Policy magazine entitled Think Again: Drugs |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: Legalization [Against] |
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| Michael Levine—Former Federal Agent; Author of the books Deep Cover; The Big White Lie; Triangle of Death and Fight Back: How to take your community back from the Drug Dealers; Court-Qualified Expert Witness; Law Enforcement Consultant and Radio Host on WBAI in New York |
| Geopolitics of Drugs: The Politics of Heroin |
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| Alfred McCoy — Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade; Mission Myopia: Narcotics as 'Fall Out' from the CIA's Covert Wars and War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy |
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