POS 316416 Latin American Politics 11132006

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics 11/13/2006

• Course status.
• Paper Assignment 2.
• Returned via e-mail, no later than Wednesday.
• Paper Assignment 3.
• Distributed tonight, due 11/27.
• Lecture/discussion.
• Elections 2006.
• Oaxaca 2006 Limits of Democracy.
• US Influence/Counter-narcotics/Counter-Terror and
  Militarization.
• Addicted to Failure? State failure, rebellion,
  and narcotics.
• Video FARC, Colombia.
• Venezuela.
• Video 2002 coup.

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• Elections 2006.
• Latin America.
• Washington Post.
• Election Map.
• Ecuador 11/26/06 Venezuela 12/?/2006.
• Nicaragua.
• Washington Post.
• Ortega takes power w/under 40.
• Returns after 16 years out of office.
• Vows close US ties.
• Things not going Bushs way.
• Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Indymedia coverage.
• US journalist Brad Will killed.

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• US Influence Global and Regional (Latin
  American) Patterns in Narcotics Trafficking.
• UN.
• Office on Drugs and Crime.
• 2006 World Drug Report.
• OAS
• Inter American Drug Abuse Control Commission.
• United States.
• DEA.
• Narco-Terrorism Website.
• Department of State.
• Plan Colombia.
• Dept. of Treasury
• FINCEN.
• Political Instability Task Force/State Failure
  Project.
• Phase 5 Reports.

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• Political Instability Task Force/State Failure
  Project Phase V.

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• Political Instability Task Force/State Failure
  Project Phase V.

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• Global Narcotics Trafficking Patterns (UNODCP WDR
  2006).

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• Global Narcotics Trafficking Patterns (UNODCP WDR
  2006).

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• Narcotics Trafficking2.

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• Narcotics Trafficking2.

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• Narcotics Trafficking3.

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• Narcotics Trafficking3.

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• Narcotics Trafficking3.

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• Narcotics Trafficking.

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• Narcotics Trafficking.

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• Narcotics Trafficking.

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• Global Drug Seizures (UNODCP WDR 2004).
• 2006 Seizures 34 billion consumption units.

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• US Influence Narcotics Trafficking, War On Drugs.
• Video 2 FARC.
• Colombia Profile - MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base.
• GIS Tool on MIPT Website patterns of conflict
  in Colombia.
• Vanden and Prevost, Chap. 18 (Colombia).
• La Violencia.
• Elite Structure discussed, 503.
• Producer associations, exercise large influence.
• Contemporary Conflict.
• Loveman (Pizarro and Gaitan) Chap. 2 (Plan
  Colombia).
• Post 9/11 shift, counter-narcotics to Colombia
  Front of GWOT.
• Vietnamization?
• Multi-dimensionality of Crisis.
• Challenge building democratic state w/n context
  of crisis with regional and global dimensions.

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• US Influence Narcotics Trafficking, War On Drugs,
  Colombia 2.
• UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs
  Colombia.
• Index site.
• Map site.
• Clandestineradio.com.
• FARC/ELN radio transmissions.

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• Colombia ReliefWeb - Surveillance.

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• Colombia ReliefWeb Conflict Areas (2006).

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• Colombia ReliefWeb Expulsions (2006).

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• Colombia ReliefWeb Dislocated Populations
  Arrivals Change 2004-2005 (2006).

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• Next Week (11/20/2006).
• Come to class having done assigned readings and
  prepared to view La Boca Del Lobo.
• Or
• Select a film/web video, send two-three page
  review/critique to Prof. Erickson by Nov. 26,
  1159pm.