Grisaffi, T;
Ledebur, K;
(2016)
Citizenship or Repression? Coca, Eradication and Development in the Andes.
Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
, 5
(1)
pp. 1-19.
10.5334/sta.440.
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Abstract
For over two decades the US has funded repressive forced coca eradication in Peru, Colombia and Bolivia to reduce the illegal cocaine trade. These policies have never met their stated goals and have generated violence and poverty. In 2006 Bolivia definitively broke with the US anti-narcotics model, replacing the militarized eradication of coca crops with a community-based coca control strategy. The program substantially reduced the coca crop while simultaneously respecting human rights and allowing farmers to diversify their livelihoods. This article outlines the elements of the Bolivian initiative that ensure its continued successful functioning. It explores to what extent this model can be translated to other Andean contexts.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Citizenship or Repression? Coca, Eradication and Development in the Andes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/sta.440 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/sta.440 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Coca, Eradication, Development, Alternative Development, Citizenship, Chapare, Illicit Crops, Coca Leaf, Crop Substitution, Andes, Andean, Drug War, War on Drugs, Chapare, Cocaine, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477617 |
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