ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns itself with European Union drug control policy towards the Andes and its consequences. It focuses on the political aims, objectives and interests of the EU in drug control policy as well as the consequences from, and the responses to, actual executions of drug control programmes. It investigates the background of EU involvement in cocaine control in the Andes through the development of cooperation between the EU and the Andean states for drug control purposes. It examines the EU approach to drug control. The EU perceives the solution to reduce cocaine trafficking from a particular angle, that is to say, a matter of economic and political development. It details of the EU alternative development programme will be examined, following that in Bolivia. Bolivia has received several programmes emphasising drug control from the EU compared with other Andean states. It also elaborates the EU attempt to a bi-regional co-operation mechanism for drug control in Latin America.
