Marijuana Boom

The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-32547-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Britto, Lina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lina Britto is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.