Program Title:
Cocaine Politics
PRA Archive #:
SZ0615a
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Cocaine Politics / Peter Dale Scott| interviewed by Dennis Bernstein. - Peter Dale Scott is interviewed about the relationship of United States foreign policy and Central American cocaine productions and smuggling. He discusses the role of the CIA, Oliver North, and Washington funding of the Contra operation with drug trafficing monies. Such actions emerge, he argues, when nationalistic democratic movements in the Third World threaten U.S. foreign interests. He retraces the actions of John Hull in Costa Rica, the kinds of people who work in these operations, such as: Frank Castro, Rene Corvo, Felipe Vidal, Steven Carr, Jack Taro and Jesus Garcia. RECORDED: KPFA, May 1991.
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Item duration:
60:00
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