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

By:

Britto, Lina [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520974265

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV5840 .M375 2020

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Contents:

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

Subject: "Before Colombia became one of the main producers of cocaine in the world in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make this South American country the principal supplier of marijuana for the largest market in the world at the time, the US counterculture. Marijuana Boom offers a unique and in-depth perspective to this forgotten history. Combining archival research with extensive fieldwork, Lina Britto puts together fragmented pieces of evidence in order to understand the constellation of factors that produced the perfect storm, one that subverted life in a corner of the Caribbean, and changed Colombia for decades to come"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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

"Before Colombia became one of the main producers of cocaine in the world in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make this South American country the principal supplier of marijuana for the largest market in the world at the time, the US counterculture. Marijuana Boom offers a unique and in-depth perspective to this forgotten history. Combining archival research with extensive fieldwork, Lina Britto puts together fragmented pieces of evidence in order to understand the constellation of factors that produced the perfect storm, one that subverted life in a corner of the Caribbean, and changed Colombia for decades to come"--

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