Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

For years I have known, followed and much admired Alfredo's frontline reporting on drug wars, especially those in and around the Andes against coca. He has found and well documented a heart of darkness in his and my field, criminal justice or criminology, globally. Every student of crime and criminal justice should know what he reports in this enormously important report on organized crime and corruption in the Americas.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 A Neo-Marxist Explanation of Organized CrimeChapter 3 Historical Observations on 'Clear[ly] and Present[ly] Danger[ous]' Plant LifeChapter 4 A Tale of Two Coups: Shanghai 1927 and La Paz 1980Chapter 5 Elites, Cocaine, and Power in Colombia and PeruChapter 6 Beyond Modern Capitalism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Organized CrimeChapter 7 Beyond Modern Capitalism: Mercantile PiracyChapter 8 The Racket and New World Disorder: Control and Domination in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 9 Conclusion

Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

For years I have known, followed and much admired Alfredo's frontline reporting on drug wars, especially those in and around the Andes against coca. He has found and well documented a heart of darkness in his and my field, criminal justice or criminology, globally. Every student of crime and criminal justice should know what he reports in this enormously important report on organized crime and corruption in the Americas.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 A Neo-Marxist Explanation of Organized CrimeChapter 3 Historical Observations on 'Clear[ly] and Present[ly] Danger[ous]' Plant LifeChapter 4 A Tale of Two Coups: Shanghai 1927 and La Paz 1980Chapter 5 Elites, Cocaine, and Power in Colombia and PeruChapter 6 Beyond Modern Capitalism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Organized CrimeChapter 7 Beyond Modern Capitalism: Mercantile PiracyChapter 8 The Racket and New World Disorder: Control and Domination in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 9 Conclusion

Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

For years I have known, followed and much admired Alfredo's frontline reporting on drug wars, especially those in and around the Andes against coca. He has found and well documented a heart of darkness in his and my field, criminal justice or criminology, globally. Every student of crime and criminal justice should know what he reports in this enormously important report on organized crime and corruption in the Americas.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 A Neo-Marxist Explanation of Organized CrimeChapter 3 Historical Observations on 'Clear[ly] and Present[ly] Danger[ous]' Plant LifeChapter 4 A Tale of Two Coups: Shanghai 1927 and La Paz 1980Chapter 5 Elites, Cocaine, and Power in Colombia and PeruChapter 6 Beyond Modern Capitalism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Organized CrimeChapter 7 Beyond Modern Capitalism: Mercantile PiracyChapter 8 The Racket and New World Disorder: Control and Domination in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 9 Conclusion