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Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-105
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... The authoritarian regimes of General Hugo Banzer Suárez and General Luis García Meza stood out not only for their harsh repression of political dissent, but also for their increasingly extensive involvement in illicit cocaine traffcking. The courageous journalism of René Bascopé Aspiazu (1951–84...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-129
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In recent decades, cocaine traffcking and the U.S.-promoted War on Drugs in the Andes have stigmatized the coca leaf in public awareness. But in the hilly, subtropical Yungas region of La Paz, the cultivation of coca is an age-old activity with deep cultural roots. The ethnographic work...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-091
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Banzer Suárez and General Luis García Meza stood out not only for their harsh repression of political dissent, but also for their increasingly extensive involvement in illicit cocaine traffcking. The courageous journalism of René Bascopé Aspiazu (1951–84) exposed the networks of complicity involving...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
..., Sunday in the park or plaza is a chance to meet a suitor, stroll at leisure with women friends, or picnic with family. In recent decades, cocaine traffcking and the U.S.-promoted War on Drugs in the Andes have stigmatized the coca leaf in public awareness. But in the hilly, subtropical Yungas...