ABSTRACT
The two previous chapters have dealt with the influence of drugs on guerrilla warfare, terrorism and crime on the upstream or supply side; on the corruption by the cocaine trade of government and business in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia and the nurturing, financing, and arming of terrorist groups like SL and FARC, causing tens of thousands of violent deaths each year; and the corruption and intimidation of politicians, officials and business people across the Caribbean and Central America. In the same way, the heroin trade finances the continuing insurgency by warlords and guerrilla armies which have helped to make Myanmar one of the poorest countries in the world; the financing of dissident tribesmen in Pakistan, Kurdistan and Afghanistan is likely to dog the efforts to restore stability. The drug traffic also finances the horror of Lebanon, where warring militias have maintained chaos in the country for fourteen years.
