ABSTRACT
The gun used to kill Colombian presidential candidate Carlos Galan in 1989 was bought with money earned from the illicit drug trade—the byproduct of a transaction that put US dollars into the pocket of a drug dealer and white powder up the nose of a user. In the 1970s, the bad guys became more complex than the prototypical national-revolutionary fighting to gain independence from the forces of Western imperialism. Drug traffickers constituted yet another group of bad guys, who increasingly emerged as transnational actors. The new bad guys are a wider-ranging group than, encompassing revolutionaries, international crime, eco-terrorists, and rogue states. The goals of the bad guys in the 1990s range from the profit motive to the desire to radically change society. Ecological terrorists or the eco-theocracy represent a new threat in the 1990s. In the 1990s, international crime will be a steady and dangerous challenge of growing complexity.
