The USA drug policy as a strategy of economic and political control of Latin America

Abstract

This article aims to present in a summary and introductory way the relationship between the fight against international drug trafficking led by the USA as a political and economic strategy to control peripheral countries, especially the Latin America. The methodology used was theoretical and documentary research on the topic through primary and secondary documents. The results obtained allow us to verify that, over the last decades, the drug control policy proposed by the American agencies has revealed itself as a mechanism of military insertion to “prevent” demonstrations and revolts against the power of the aforementioned country. In other words, through anti-drug policy, the US is able to prevent the action of rebel groups in some peripheral countries while using drug trafficking to finance right-wing groups.