Abstract
Drug trafficking did not pose an important security problem in the Central American region (considered for the purposes of this chapter as the old Central American Federation countries, i.e. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, plus Panama) until the decade of the 1980s. And even from that time, penetration of the diverse dimensions of the drug problem was different for the various countries in the area, being influenced not only by natural characteristics of the phenomenon and the way the states and societies were organized, but also the internal and external military-political conflicts that affected all the nations in the Isthmus.
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Peralta, G.A. (2000). Fighting the Dragon: the Anti-drug Strategy in Central America. In: Griffith, I.L. (eds) The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288966_12
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