Marijuana Boom

The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise

AvLina Britto

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520325456

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Lina Britto is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

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"Marijuana Boom is an important book that foregrounds a regional history eclipsed by the subsequent cocaine industry that ‘car-bombed’ Colombia. . . . It approaches this history from multiple thematic angles and diverse geographies of power, with the help of diverse archival sources, newspapers, and interviews."

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Forgotten HistoryPART ONEASCENDANCE1 • Wheels of Progress: Tropical Commodities and Regional Formation2 • Coming from the Mountain: Coffee Contraband and Marijuana SmugglingPART TWOPEAK3 • Santa Marta Gold: Technological Adaptations and Boom4 • Party Animals: Vallenato Music and Cultural NegotiationPART THREEDECLINE5 • Two Peninsulas: Narcotics Diplomacy and the War on Drugs6 • Reign of Terror: Criminalization and ViolenceConclusions: A Remembered HistoryAppendix. Comment on Oral SourcesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Lina Britto, George C. Howard, Gratiniano Gomez, Vernon L. Fluharty, Nicolas D. Abuchaibe, Arthur Bliss Lane, D. Chadwick Braggiotti, Miguel Cotes Barros, Barry T. Benson, Thomas H. Robinson, Carlos Goenaga Gonzalez, Alejandro Ortega, Teodosio Goenaga, R. Kenneth Oakley, Lewis E. Leonard, Spruille Braden, Nelson R. Park, Terry B. Sanders