Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Forgotten History -- Part one. ascendance -- 1. Wheels of Progress: Tropical Commodities and Regional Formation -- 2. Coming from the Mountain: Coffee Contraband and Marijuana Smuggling -- Part two. peak -- 3. San...

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Main Author: Britto, Lina 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA University of California Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
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Keywords:
Drug control > Colombia > History
Drug traffic > Colombia > History
HISTORY / Latin America / General
agrarian developments
agriculture
caribbean coast
cocaine
colombia
colombian coffee
colombian government
counterculture
crops
cultivation
democracy
drug smuggling
drug trafficking
drugs
economics
exports
government reform
history
illegal drugs
illicit drugs
latin america
legal drugs
marijuana
military
modernization
nacho vives
narcotics
nation state
nonfiction
oral history
politics
protests
riohacha
south america
state formation
violence
war on drugs
Kolumbien > Marihuana > Drogenhandel > Bekämpfung > Drogenpolitik > Geschichte 1960-2018
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 167079217X
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Forgotten History -- Part one. ascendance -- 1. Wheels of Progress: Tropical Commodities and Regional Formation -- 2. Coming from the Mountain: Coffee Contraband and Marijuana Smuggling -- Part two. peak -- 3. Santa Marta Gold: Technological Adaptations and Boom -- 4. Party Animals: Vallenato Music and Cultural Negotiation -- Part three. decline -- 5. Two Peninsulas: Narcotics Diplomacy and the War on Drugs -- 6. Reign of Terror: Criminalization and Violence -- Conclusions: A Remembered History -- Appendix. Comment on Oral Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (352 p)
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780520974265
DOI:10.1525/9780520974265
Access:Restricted Access