Marijuana boom the rise and fall of Colombia's first drug paradise Lina Britto

ISBN:

9780520974265

Title:

Author:

Britto, Lina, author.

Personal Author:

Britto, Lina, author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) illustrations, maps

Contents:

Introduction : a forgotten history -- Wheels of progress : tropical commodities and regional formation -- Coming from the mountain : coffee contraband and marijuana smuggling -- Santa Marta gold : technological adaptations and boom -- Parranderos : Vallenato music and cultural negotiations -- Two peninsulas : Narcotics diplomacy and the war on drugs -- Reign of terror : criminalization and violence -- Conclusions : a remembered history

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Subject Term:

Drug traffic -- Colombia -- History.

Drug control -- Colombia -- History.

Drogues -- Trafic -- Colombie -- Histoire.

Lutte antidrogue -- Colombie -- Histoire.

HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.

Drug control

Drug traffic

Geographic Term:

Colombia

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2020

Publication Information:

Oakland, California

University of California Press

[2020]

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Summary

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?

Author Notes

Britto Lina :

Lina Britto is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.