Drug Wars

The Drug Wars took place between 1987 and 1993 in Central and South America. Led by the United States, the wars were ostensibly fought to eradicate the tide of narcotics flooding the nation from the south. A string of proxy wars and political coups toppled the governments, replacing many of them with puppet right-wing ones, fiercely loyal to their U.S. masters and giving U.S. control over the whole of the western hemisphere. In response to this, the Soviet Union consolidated their power into a single bloc, prompting a political and military arms race.