Drug trafficking as illegal means in Colombia ¿local initiative or foreign imposition?

Abstract

Although since the decade of 1920 there have been some lawsin our country forbidding narcotic drugs, the war against them begins at the beginning of the seventy’s decade, after United States meetings with the Latin-American states, in which pressured into in order to execute its program of expansion of social control beyond its borders. That was demonstrated in Colombia with the enactment of the National Narcotic Statute in 1974. TheAmericans argued that the narcotic drugs problem was considered as an internal enemy who threatened the national security of the State. Encouraged by such as political motivation, it took place the National Security Doctrine, impelled over by the United States, with the purpose of legitimizing the war against drugs, for which the Armed Forces as means of defense and containment of this “internal enemy” are used.