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Week 5: Drugs LAST 201

The Cultural Life of Coca and The Coca War While doing these readings I concentrated my thinking on ideas of criminalization and the vilification of Indigenous practices.  The first article “The Cultural Life of Coca” described the practices surrounding coca production, distribution, and consumption. It was interesting to learn about the cultivation process. I wasContinue reading “Week 5: Drugs LAST 201”

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Speaking Truth to Power

This week we see a shift in the violence experienced in the region, from being state perpetrated to other more marginal groups. The disappearance of people in the internal conflicts of several countries was a common feature, even to the most recent event in Colombia. It is interesting to see that mothers are the first […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Cocaine, colombia, crime, drug trafficking, drugs, Mexico, Mothers, rights, state violence

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