c o m m e n t a r y Small Arms Trafficking in the Americas By Jeffrey Fields | August 2001 This commentary was commissioned and originally distributed by the IRC’s
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Key Points The Bush administration describes its Andean strategy as a “three-legged stool” of eradication, military assistance, and alternative development, but military aid is by far the largest leg. U.S. assistance to