These impacts are directly a product of international pressure through economic coercion and military intervention from the war on drugs campaign to adhere to american policy frameworks for implementing drug control measures.

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This paper will examine how the international drug trade and monumental demand for narcotics within the United States have resulted in the proliferation of lethal cartel violence and the construction of severe political instability and legitimacy crises across Colombia. These impacts are directly a product of international pressure through economic coercion and military intervention from the War on Drugs campaign to adhere to American policy frameworks for implementing drug control measures.