Description
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: Lina Britto
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780520325470
ISBN10: 0520325478
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | General
- History | Latin America | General
Author: Lina Britto
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780520325470
ISBN10: 0520325478
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | General
- History | Latin America | General
About the Author
Lina Britto is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.