Alejandro Gaviria is Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia and former dean of economics at the University of the Andes, Colombia. He is coeditor of Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America.Daniel Mejia is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes, Colombia and a contributor to Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs and Illicit Trade and the Global Economy.

"The publication of this book represents a landmark in the manner of confronting the problem of illegal drugs in Colombia. No country in the world has paid such a high cost as Colombia in terms of the lives of its political leaders, judges, policemen, soldiers, journalists, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians, nor suffered a graver damage to its democratic institutions. The moment has come to evaluate the results of this strategy, which has so few results to show beyond statistics about interdiction efforts, drug seizures, the persecution of drug cartels, deaths, and prisoners in jails."--from the Prologue by César Gaviria Trujillo, former president of the Republic of Colombia

Alejandro Gaviria is Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia and former dean of economics at the University of the Andes, Colombia. He is coeditor of Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America.Daniel Mejia is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes, Colombia and a contributor to Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs and Illicit Trade and the Global Economy.

"The publication of this book represents a landmark in the manner of confronting the problem of illegal drugs in Colombia. No country in the world has paid such a high cost as Colombia in terms of the lives of its political leaders, judges, policemen, soldiers, journalists, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians, nor suffered a graver damage to its democratic institutions. The moment has come to evaluate the results of this strategy, which has so few results to show beyond statistics about interdiction efforts, drug seizures, the persecution of drug cartels, deaths, and prisoners in jails."--from the Prologue by César Gaviria Trujillo, former president of the Republic of Colombia

Alejandro Gaviria is Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia and former dean of economics at the University of the Andes, Colombia. He is coeditor of Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America.Daniel Mejia is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes, Colombia and a contributor to Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs and Illicit Trade and the Global Economy.

"The publication of this book represents a landmark in the manner of confronting the problem of illegal drugs in Colombia. No country in the world has paid such a high cost as Colombia in terms of the lives of its political leaders, judges, policemen, soldiers, journalists, and tens of thousands of innocent civilians, nor suffered a graver damage to its democratic institutions. The moment has come to evaluate the results of this strategy, which has so few results to show beyond statistics about interdiction efforts, drug seizures, the persecution of drug cartels, deaths, and prisoners in jails."--from the Prologue by César Gaviria Trujillo, former president of the Republic of Colombia