Historique
Article de Périodique
The political economy of a failed drug reform: Insights from Peru's main legal coca valley (2023)
Auteur(s) :
BUSNEL, R. ;
MANRIQUE LOPEZ, H.
Année
2023
Page(s) :
art. 104050
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Autres substances / Other substances
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
PEROU
Thésaurus mots-clés
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
ECONOMIE
;
COCA
;
POLITIQUE
;
AGRICULTURE
;
EVOLUTION
;
COMMERCE
;
PRODUIT LICITE
Résumé :
As the world's second largest coca producer, Peru has a flourishing market for coca for non-narcotic uses. With more than 20,000 hectares and approximately 35,000 officially registered farmers in the Peruvian legal scheme for coca cultivation and commercialization, this market is formally under the monopoly of the National Enterprise of Coca (ENACO). Nonetheless, ENACO only captures 2% of all coca produced nationally and has experienced a sustained reduction of farmers' participation and coca purchases within the legal trade. At different times, these problems have opened the way to demands from left-wing political parties, subnational governments, coca growers' organizations and even Peru's central drug control institutions to reform the legal coca market in Peru. However, none of these attempts have succeeded. Based on a policy analysis of the legal coca trade and analysis of official data, together with a case study of Peru's main legal coca valley (La Convención) this article seeks to understand the current crisis of the legal coca trade as well as the repeated failures of reform. Peru's political centralism and the historical marginalization of Andean culture help to explain the successful blocking of reform attempts to the legal coca trade.
Affiliation :
Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Centre d’étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL), Brussels, Belgium
Department of Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Department of Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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