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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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
University of California Press
[2020]
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In: | Year: 2020 |
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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? |
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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 |