Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research w...

Antes que Colombia se convirtiera en uno de los principales productores de cocaína del mundo en los años ochenta, una generación temprana de traficantes inundó de marihuana el mercado de la contracultura hippie de los Estados Unidos durante las décadas del sesenta y el setenta.Conocidos popularmente como marimberos, estos pioneros del tráfico de drogas se convirtieron en los principales proveedores de la droga de moda del momento y luego se volvieron el primer objetivo de la «guerr...

Esta obra constituye una contribución fundamental a la historiografía de las relaciones internacionales y la seguridad hemisférica en el Gran Caribe. A través de la desclasificación y análisis de fuentes primarias, el volumen examina la actividad de inteligencia y vigilancia desplegada por el servicio diplomático de los Estados Unidos en la península de La Guajira durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El texto documenta cómo una región periférica se transformó en un enclave estratégico para l...

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a ...

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistent...