The political economy of a failed drug reform: Insights from Peru's main legal coca valley

Original research
par
Busnel, Romain & Hernán Manrique López

Date de publication

2023

Géographie

Peru

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Non

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

Yes

L’objectif

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.

Constatations/points à retenir

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.

Mots clés

Policy/Regulatory
Decriminalization/legalization