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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Lina Britto Abstract This essay, based in large part on local oral history, uncovers the lived experience of the rural and urban popular sectors who participated in the 1970s marijuana boom along the northernmost section of the Colombian Caribbean coast. In particular, the piece narrates how...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Benjamin Smith Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise . By Lina Britto . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi, 332 pp. Paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 495–497.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Jonathan D. Ablard Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs . By Campos Isaac . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 331 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright 2013...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 37–69.
Published: 01 February 2015
... the doors and continued shooting at prisoners. Sixty-four common prisoners died, at least seven of whom were sentenced for drug-related offenses. They included Ariel Colavini (aged 22), detained in late 1977 for possessing two joints of marijuana; Horacio Santonin and Pablo Menta (aged 19 and 26...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 377–378.
Published: 01 May 2022
... recent for a thorough historical treatment. The early twentieth-century material is the weakest. For example, calling marijuana “the drug of choice” of the Mexican Revolution's soldiers is both factually wrong (alcohol too is a drug) and a serious exaggeration of the extent of marijuana use at the time...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 574–576.
Published: 01 August 2010
... poor, dark-skinned marijuana users and Chinese opium smokers but spared rich, light-skinned cocaine snorters. That pattern endured despite shifts in power in Havana. Cuban courts were slow and amenable to lenient bail arrangements, resulting in a revolving door for traffickers who found Cuba...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 570–572.
Published: 01 August 2017
... that progressed at “breakneck speed” brought order and economic growth to a country experiencing a demographic transition (p. 11). In chapter 2, he dives into the rise of the marijuana and cocaine businesses, from 1970 to 1983, and explains both as the result of external demand from the United States (p. 33). He...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., is now the world's second-biggest consumer of Andean cocaine after the United States, fueling fierce gang warfare in the favelas, while the Argentine and Chilean middle classes smoke marijuana at rates similar to those for disaffected European youth. Drug addiction, beyond problems with alcohol, is now...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 August 1988
... of the mental illness of Epifanio Mejía (1838-1913), the gifted Antioquian bard whose manic depression caused him to spend the last half of his life in the Medellín asylum. Next is a piece which treats the marijuana addiction of Porfirio Barba Jacob (Miguel Ángel Osorio, 1883-1942), another famed Antioquian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 353.
Published: 01 May 1993
... government was a greater national security threat than the importation of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. The book develops this argument in two parts: “Right-Wing Narcoterrorism, the CIA, and the Contras” and “Exposure and Cover-Up.” In the first part, the authors trace the various...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 747–784.
Published: 01 November 2006
... young Chileans found compelling. Broadly speaking, hippies created — by means of clothing, hairstyles, hangouts, marijuana use, language, music, and sexuality — an identifiable culture delineated as much or more by consumption patterns as anything. Chilean hippies sought to emulate U.S. hippies in many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 384–385.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of marijuana and cocaine, the domestic and international distribution and consumption of these substances, and the push and pull of migration factors. In the final chapter, Bronfman examines information technologies, discussing access to and control of communication technologies and the role...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 388–389.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and south of the US-Mexican border, have dealt historically with its threat. Beginning in the early 1900s, we see how Mexico becomes a key player in the global narcotics trade, as a transshipment point for opium from east Asia and, later on, for locally produced opium and marijuana as well as Andean cocaine...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 758–759.
Published: 01 November 1997
... and Consequences , by María Cela Toro (1995); Marijuana in the “Third World”: Appalachia, U.S.A ., by Richard R. Clayton (1995); and The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle , by Ronald D. Renard (1996). In organization, Tullis’s work tends to follow the geographical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 738–739.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., cheap cigarettes, and marijuana, the singing of corridos , and their female companions, the soldaderas , and their offspring. The army rations, based on European foods, were designed to break with native diets, from which the conscripts were saved by the soldaderas' proper tacos. The women...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 751–752.
Published: 01 November 2023
... corporation and “horizontal ties” of family, fictive kinship, friendship, and locale made Sinaloa's opium and marijuana economies both highly profitable and virtually impossible for law enforcement to crack (p. 175). Most chapters expose the variety of ties between the drug industry and the state...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 119–150.
Published: 01 February 2003
... and politically. The new cocaine market was, in large part, politically constructed in the North and obeyed an iron law of drugs: suppression of softer stuff leads mainly to the harder stuff. Richard Nixon’s politically motivated border war against bulky imported Mexican marijuana (how Nixon loathed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 727–746.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., Alejandra (R), 551 Brazil's Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia , by Anadelia A. Romo, 691 Breña, Roberto (R), 157 Brennan, James (R), 173 Britto, Lina (R), 708 Britto, Lina, “Hurricane Winds: Vallenato Music and Marijuana Traffic in Colombia's First Illegal Drugs Boom,” 71...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 747–767.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Meireles, 524 A Call to Conscience: The Anti Contra War Campaign, by Roger Peace, 736 Campos, Isaac, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico s War on Drugs, 495 Candiani, Vera S. (R), 519 Cañizares- Esguerra, Jorge (R), 696 Cano Pérez, María José, Raanan Rein, and Beatriz Molina Rueda, eds., Más...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 463–492.
Published: 01 August 2020
... from government-subsidized foodstuffs. Prostitution and marijuana sales were relatively common, and in 1947 the mayor lost several teeth confronting an illegal gambling operation. The neighborhood's disputed land was also never far from view. 10 González navigated these issues as just one leader...
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