ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a framework for analysis of source country control efforts, and provides a description and assessment of the kinds of programs that have been used to control drug production and exports in the Andean region. It discusses a highly speculative manner, the issue of why, in the face of continuing lack of success and increasing awareness of the systemic nature of that failure, source country control programs continue to play a major role in the rhetoric of drug policy. The effort to control drug production overseas has generally been viewed as ineffective and perhaps even counterproductive, both for the producing nations and for United States (US) diplomacy. Despite concerns that convicted drug dealers face too slight a prospect of prison time in the US, dealer risks of incarceration are almost certainly much higher than are grower/refiner/distributor risks in the Andes.
