The Eastern Amazon basin and the coca-cocaine complex
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Heft 169
ISSN: 0020-8701
Considers some of the interactions between the illicit drug trade and the use of territory in the Amazon basin, especially in its eastern section, which belongs to Brazil. Analysis of some of the territorial and economic effects brought about by changes in the mode of organisation of the coca-cocaine complex suggests that criminal activities, although sensitive and adaptable to the local environment, tend to encourage the worst of legitimate social and economic practices, becoming a parasite of parasites. (Original abstract - amended)