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Title

Coca and cocaine : an Andean perspective / edited by Felipe E. Mac Gregor ; translated by Jonathan Cavanagh and Rosemary Underhay ; foreword by Giuseppe di Gennaro.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Mac Gregor, Felipe E.
• Asociación Peruana de Estudios e Investigaciones para la Paz.

Description

x, 155 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Political and economic aspects of cocaine in Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia from the perspective of individuals from those countries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Series Statement

Contributions in criminology and penology, 0732-4464 ; no. 37

Uniform Title

Contributions in criminology and penology no. 37.

Subject

• Drug traffic > Bolivia
• Drug traffic > Colombia
• Drug traffic > Peru
• Cocaine industry > Bolivia
• Cocaine industry > Colombia
• Cocaine industry > Peru
• Coca > Economic aspects > Bolivia
• Coca > Economic aspects > Peru

Note

• Translations from Spanish.
• "Published under the auspices of the Asociación Peruana de Estudios e Investigacion para la Paz."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Coca-cocaine phenomenon in Bolivia -- Coca and its growing areas -- Cocaine : defining terms -- Cocaine's Impact on the National Economy -- Social impact of cocaine trafficking -- Legislation -- Drug trade and Bolivia's foreign affairs -- Crop reduction programs -- Proposals for change -- ch. 2. Socioeconomic and political impact of the drug phenomenon in Colombia -- Drugs and the United States : a Colombian impression -- Moral considerations -- Elements of a solution -- Use of drugs in history -- Recent U.S. policy on drugs -- Drugs in the "Third World" -- Drug trafficking in the Colombian economy -- Political and social dimensions -- Synthesis of the drug issue in Colombia -- ch. 3. Illicit drug trade in Peru -- Chemical and medical aspects of cocaine -- Factors of drug dependence -- Coca and the Peruvian economy -- Drug trade, foreign exchange, and the banking system -- Costs of the drug trade -- Three stages of Peruvian drug trade legislation -- Considerations for the future -- Strategies for the drug trade -- Solutions -- ch. 4. Cocaine : Andean problems and Andean solutions -- International nature of the problem -- United States and the production, trafficking, and consumption of cocaine -- Andean countries and the production, trafficking, and consumption of cocaine -- Economic dimensions of the illicit drug trade for Andean countries -- Legislation and the administration of justice -- Substitution and eradication -- Traditional consumption and legalization.

ISBN

0313285306 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^92012282^

OCLC

• 25631962
• SCSB-10163599

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Harvard Library