Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andes Region
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Andean Cocaine Industry
Author: P. ClawsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349609781
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
It is commonly known that the Andean nations of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the international centers of cocaine production. But until now, there has been no comprehensive view of this billion dollar industry. Using never-before unearthed information culled from their extensive field research, Patrick Clawson and Rensselaer Lee reveal the configuration of the drug industry, from the original cultivation of coca in the fields of South America to the sale of cocaine on the streets of the United States. The authors analyze the economic and political impact of the drug business on the Andean nations, including such problems as violence and the undermining of legitimate business. Through the ground-breaking work of Clawson and Lee, The Andean Cocaine Industry illuminates one of the most pervasive problems facing the world today.
Andean Cocaine
Author: Paul GootenbergPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080788779X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the global influences that have shaped the history of cocaine. But Gootenberg decenters the familiar story to uncover the roles played by hitherto obscure but vital Andean actors as well--for example, the Peruvian pharmacist who developed the techniques for refining cocaine on an industrial scale and the creators of the original drug-smuggling networks that decades later would be taken over by Colombian traffickers. Andean Cocaine proves indispensable to understanding one of the most vexing social dilemmas of the late twentieth-century Americas: the American cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and, in its wake, the seemingly endless U.S. drug war in the Andes.
Lost Crops of the Incas
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030904264X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing nations, such as high nutritional quality and excellent yields. Many are adaptable to areas of the United States. Lost Crops of the Incas includes vivid color photographs of many of the crops and describes the authors' experiences in growing, tasting, and preparing them in different ways. This book is for the gourmet and gourmand alike, as well as gardeners, botanists, farmers, and agricultural specialists in developing countries.
The Andean Report
Author: Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes
Author: Francisco E. ThoumiPublisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN: 9780801878541
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Table of contents
Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region
Author: World Drug Report 2019
Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimePublisher:
ISBN: 9789210041744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 2019 World Drug Report will include an updated overview of recent trends on production, trafficking and consumption of key illicit drugs. The Report contains a global overview of the baseline data and estimates on drug demand and supply and provides the reference point for information on the drug situation worldwide.
Annual Report on the Impact of the Andean Trade Preference Act
Author: Impact of the Andean Trade Preference Act, 12th Report 2005, Inv. 332-352
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1457818728
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA)
Author: Aaron J. DohrnmannPublisher:
ISBN: 9781613243862
Category : Andes Region
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CRS report for Congress prepared for members and committees of Congress.