RT Book
T1 Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
A1 Britto, Lina 1976-
LA English
PP Berkeley, CA
PB University of California Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1786448866
AB 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
AB 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?
CN HV5840.C7
SN 978-0-520-97426-5
K1 Drug control : Colombia : History
K1 Drug traffic : Colombia : History
K1 HISTORY / Latin America / General
K1 caribbean coast
K1 cocaine
K1 colombia
K1 colombian coffee
K1 crops
K1 cultivation
K1 latin america
K1 agrarian developments
K1 agriculture
K1 colombian government
K1 counterculture
K1 democracy
K1 drug smuggling
K1 drug trafficking
K1 drugs
K1 economics
K1 exports
K1 government reform
K1 history
K1 illegal drugs
K1 illicit drugs
K1 legal drugs
K1 marijuana
K1 military
K1 modernization
K1 nacho vives
K1 narcotics
K1 nation state
K1 nonfiction
K1 oral history
K1 politics
K1 protests
K1 riohacha
K1 south america
K1 state formation
K1 violence
K1 war on drugs
K1 Kolumbien : Marihuana : Drogenhandel : Bekämpfung : Drogenpolitik : Geschichte 1960-2018
DO 10.1525/9780520974265