Guerra, violencia y droga describe mediante historias reales, como durante la siembra y comercializacion de la cocaina los paises productores se ven afectados por los estragos que deja el narcotráfico, como La violencia y el maltrato infantil. Dejando como enseñanza que no solos los que consumen droga mueren a causa de ella, si no que son mas la personas inocente que mueren durante la producción y comercialización de esta droga "la cocaína". Siendo los niños los más afectados.
El conjunto de trabajos de este volumen revela el nivel alcanzado por el fenómeno de las drogas en el mundo andino, así como su significado en términos de las relaciones de Brasil, Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea con el área. Todos los ensayos indican la complejidad del fenómeno, los magros resultados de las políticas antidrogas y las frustraciones que ha producido la perpetuación de una estrategia antinarcóticos decididamente coactiva: “La guerra contra las drogas”. El presente libro comprueba que este paradigma prohibicionista debe reevaluarse.
Coca, cocaína y Coca-Cola son las tres variables de un mismo conflicto que se desarrolla en los suburbios de Los Ángeles a Nueva York, en los megalópolis latinoamericanas y en las emergentes poblaciones crecidas con elboomde la cocaína. Estados Unidos, mediante la guerra de la cocaína, ha recuperado el control hegemónico sobre un continente en constante riesgo de revolución. Este libro distingue aquellos fenómenos político/sociales que por su envergadura, progresión y expansión van a ser en el próximo milenio nuestros mayores generadores de injustica, pobreza y contaminación; explica cómo la actual política internacional contra las drogas estimula el narcotráfico, aumenta el poder de las mafias, fortalece a la única superpotencia y amplía la brecha entre países pobres y ricos sin resolver los problemas del consumo. Mientras que la cocaína sirve como excusa para que EE UU mantenga la guerra de las drogas en américa laina, aunque sólo suponga el 17 por 100 del comercio de drogas ilícitas, la Coca-Cola reina en el planeta con majestad suprema ejerciendo el más escandaloso de los monopolies y la hoja de coca mendiga un pequeño lugar en los hogares del mundo andino. La Guerra de la Cocaínadenuncia todo el entramado de relaciones que sustenta la actual guerra de las drogas, explica con claridad los ecosistemas sociales del narcotráfico, la narcoguerilla, la narcopolítica y propone soluciones sencillas adaptadas a la ética ecológica y a las necesidades de los países del Sur.
When Pablo Escobar, Colombia's “King of Cocaine,” was killed, the world thought—or hoped—the cocaine industry would crumble. But ten years later the country's production had almost quadrupled, and since 2001, Colombia has produced more than 60% of all the cocaine consumed in the world. Cocaine is both a curse and a salvation for Colombians. Farmers grow coca for cash but fear discovery. Families must cooperate with drug-funded guerrillas or go on the run. Destitute teens become trained killers for a quick buck in a ruthless underworld where few survive for long. At the same time, tension grows between Colombia's right-wing government and its socialist neighbors in Latin America. With the failed US War on Drugs playing into this geopolitical brew, the future of cocaine is about more than what happens to street dealers and their customers. Based on three years of research and more than 100 interviews with growers, traffickers, assassins, refugees, police, politicians, and drug tourists, Cocaína is a brilliant work of journalism, and an insight into one of the world's most troubling industries.
A multifaceted analysis of the geopolitical interests behind the drug war, the interplay between ecology, cocaine and politics, and the danger this war poses to the political stability of weak democracies, human rights and development.
In the 1960s, the governments of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia launched agricultural settlement programs in each country’s vast Amazonian frontier lowlands. Two decades later, these exact same zones had transformed into the centers of the illicit cocaine boom of the Americas. Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures. Bringing together transnational, national, and local analyses, the volume provides an in-depth examination of the deep origins of drug economics in the Americas. As the first substantial study on the shift from agrarian colonization to narcotization, The Origins of Cocaine will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of Latin American history, anthropology, globalization, development and environmental studies.
Through a series of rich photographs, Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio tells a compelling story about the war on drugs in Central America. Entirely bilingual in both English and Spanish, the book focuses on the country of Guatemala, now the principle point of transit for the cocaine that is produced in the Andes and bound for the United States and Canada. Alongside a spike in the use of crack cocaine, Guatemala City has witnessed the proliferation of Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers. The centers are sites of abuse and torment, but also lifesaving institutions in a country that does not provide any other viable social service to those struggling with drug dependency. Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio explores these centers as architectural forms, while also showcasing the cultural production that takes place inside them, including drawings and letters created by those held captive. This stunning work of visual ethnography humanizes those held inside these centers, breaks down stereotypes about drug use, and sets the conditions for a hemispheric conversation about prohibitionist practices – by revealing intimate portraits of a population held hostage by a war on drugs.
Drawing on declassified documents and extensive firsthand research, The Politics of Cocaine takes a hard look at the role the United States played in creating the drug industry that thrives in Central and South America. Author William L. Marcy contends that by conflating anti-Communist and counternarcotics policies, the United States helped establish and strengthen the drug trade as the area's economic base. Increased militarization, destabilization of governments, uncontrollable drug trafficking, more violence, and higher death tolls resulted. Marcy explores how the counternarcotics policies of the 1970s collapsed during the 1980s when economic calamity, Andean guerrilla insurgencies, and Reagan's anti-Communist struggle with Nicaragua and Cuba became conflated as part of the War on Drugs. The book then explores how the U.S. invasion of Panama and narcotics related violence throughout Andean region during the 1990s led to the militarization of the War on Drugs as a way to confront narcotics production, narco-traffickers, and narco-guerrillas alike. Marcy brings to the reader up to the end of the George W. Bush administration and explains why to this date the United States remains unable to control the flow of cocaine into the United States and why the War on Drugs appears to be spiraling out of control. The Politics of Cocaine fills in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem.
