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“thomas grisaffi”

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  • Coca Yes, Cocaine No

    How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy

    by Thomas Grisaffi ...
    In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales—leader of the MAS—became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cocaine

    From Coca Fields to the Streets

    Edited by Enrique Desmond Arias, Thomas Grisaffi ...
    The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

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  • Sacrificing Families

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  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

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    by Lynn Stephen ...
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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
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  • Drug War Capitalism

    by Dawn Paley ...
    Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new ... Read more

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  • Two Nations Indivisible

    Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

    by Shannon K. O'Neil ...
    Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords ... Read more

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

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  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
    In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context ... Read more

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  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    by Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Drug Violence

    Criminals, Cops and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico

    by Angelica Duran-Martinez ...
    Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the ... Read more

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