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agrarian developments
agriculture
Author_Lina Britto
caribbean coast
Category=NHK
cocaine
colombia
colombian coffee
colombian government
counterculture
crops
cultivation
democracy
drug smuggling
drug trafficking
drugs
economics
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exports
government reform
history
illegal drugs
illicit drugs
latin america
legal drugs
marijuana
military
modernization
nacho vives
narcotics
nation state
nonfiction
oral history
politics
protests
riohacha
south america
state formation
violence
war on drugs
Product details
- ISBN 9780520325470
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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?
Lina Britto is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.
